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...gorgeous, unspoiled slice of Mediterranean beach. The residents of Gush Katif, a collection of Jewish settlements on the Strip, bid visitors to come and swim, thanks to a new road from the Israeli border enabling tourists to skirt rebellious Palestinian villages -- and thus reduce the risk of a Molotov cocktail through the windshield. Although Gush Katif's Palestinian laborers have twice turned on their employers and stabbed two of them to death, spokeswoman Datya Herskovitz says not to worry: the attacks took place in the greenhouse district, not in the residential areas where visitors stay. She does caution, though, against...
...anyone would hurl a rock or a Molotov cocktail at another simply because of differences of color or speech or custom remains one of life's most dispiriting mysteries. But the urge to violence can be located in a sociology of causes that eastern Germany has in abundance. The main one is economic collapse. When unemployment, forced early retirement and make-work training schemes are taken together, roughly 40% of the east's labor force is out of work; nearly 3 million jobs have disappeared since unification. Although Bonn is pumping more than $100 billion a year into the east...
...German right-wing radicals, the incendiary of choice is the Molotov cocktail. Instead of hitting their target and burning out, however, the ones hurled two weeks ago in Rostock have continued to spray sparks across Germany: at week's end, more than 150 attacks on asylum-seeking foreigners had been registered since the mayhem began. In Ketzin, 10 miles from Berlin, 44 Auslander barely escaped with their lives when the building they inhabited was razed by torch throwers. Official calls for special police powers to confront the skinheads and neo-Nazis did not seem to deter anyone. Although there...
...Ethnic cleansing," it appears, plagues not just the Balkans but the Baltic as well. In a hail of rocks and Molotov cocktails, skinheads and neo-Nazis in the eastern German port of Rostock tried to storm an apartment block housing 200 asylum-seeking Romanian Gypsies, beginning an ugly battle that would last all week. After officials moved the Gypsies, the hooligans trapped 100 Vietnamese guest workers in a neighboring building and set it ablaze. By luck alone, none of the inhabitants was seriously hurt...
...drool at the idea of a chizburger and a molochny koktayl (milkshake, sounds kind of like a Molotov Cocktail, doesn't it?). Now I'll push my way through the crowds for Coke with...