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...unexpected. Three days before the floats and marching bands rumbled up Biscayne Boulevard, the down-and-out Overtown section, just five blocks south of the parade route, erupted into spasms of street combat after a young black man was killed by police. By the time the pillaging and mob assaults ended, a second person had been killed by police, more than 25 people had been injured and 45 more had been arrested, mainly for looting. The disturbances lasted for three days but were minor compared with Miami's 1980 Liberty City riots, in which 18 people died. Said Police...
Then a young black woman lunged forward and slit his throat with a pocketknife. The victim, Dan Murek, 48, miraculously survived. Rosemary Usher Jones, a local judge, tried to keep driving after a concrete chunk smashed her car window, but was soon hemmed in by the mob. Said Jones, 53: "They ripped my rings off my fingers." She was pulled to safety by two black girls and by Willie Watkins, owner of the 14th Street video arcade, where the violence had begun...
...cities in the United States, go pretty much unnoticed these days, except for the sporadic attention of a few graffiti artists and the ever-present urban pigeon. The Bicentennial celebrations of the mid 1970s, a high-water mark for statuesque snapshots of Paul Revere and the Minutemen, attracted a mob of patriotic Americans who looked for history etched in stone, but since then Bostonian public sculpture had faded into the surrounding landscape once again. Now, though, controversy over one such artistic conception of the past may result in the removal of a well-known Park Square landmark later this month...
...cavernous Las Vegas Convention Center a month ago, more than 1,000 computer companies large and small were showing off their wares, their floppy discs and disc drives, joy sticks and modems, to a mob of some 50,000 buyers, middlemen and assorted technology buffs. Look! Here is Hewlett-Packard's HP9000, on which you can sketch a new airplane, say, and immediately see the results in 3-D through holograph imaging; here is how the Votan can answer and act on a telephone call in the middle of the night from a salesman on the other side...
...which received a presidential citation for a two-year record of 126 arrests and the capture of 459,000 Ibs. of marijuana and 20 smuggling vessels. Later that day the President declared the effort "a clear and unqualified success," adding: "Our goal is to wreck the power of the Mob in America and nothing short of it. We mean to end their profits, imprison their members and cripple their organizations...