Word: mobbing
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...riots in Harvard Square were the uncontrolled acts of a mob," Sullivan said...
...least half a dozen rural areas. The worst outbreak known thus far occurred in the town of Kompong Cham, where Vietnamese agitators led a pro-Sihanouk riot. Before Cambodian troops could put down the fighting, Lon Nol's brother reportedly was hacked to bits by the mob. In all, at least 29 civilians died and 60 more were wounded...
Publicly, local Vietnamese were blamed for what seems to have been a V.C. order to riot; but a Cambodian official admitted privately that "most of the mob were Cambodians. They were confused. To them Sihanouk was a god-prince-we cannot undo in a few days what Sihanouk did in years...
...They are disturbed at the emergence of narcotics problems in their own countries. Furthermore, some widely publicized drug-connected horrors, particularly the Sharon Tate murders, have helped to erode whatever benign neglect traveling American hippies once enjoyed abroad. A few of the jailed Americans are professional smugglers, supplying the Mob in the U.S. "But most of them," says Cusack, "are not pros in the true sense. They have no records. They are users, and many of them are 'missionaries.' They want to turn others on-and if there's a profit in it, so much the better...
...America, the land of paradoxes: people are expressing disgust at the My Lai massacre of innocent women and children. But at the same time, a mob of this country's citizens attacked innocent schoolchildren with deadly intent. Where is the greater atrocity committed-in Viet Nam or here at home...