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...cabbie was reportedly shot around 4:30 a.m. About two hours earlier city police allegedly chased some molotov cocktail-carrying youths near the campus. Although police did not apprehend anyone on the scene they claimed they recognized Gary Keel, a Knoxville College student, as being a member of the group seen transporting the cocktails...
...Sacramento, two youths dropped Molotov cocktail fire bombs outside Governor Ronald Reagan's home when a bodyguard opened fire. Police said the incident was the probable aftermath to a racial disturbance near by. - In Long Island's suburban Nassau County, police acted on a telephone tip and removed a fragmentation hand grenade set to explode at the turn of a heater switch in a car belonging to County Executive Eugene Nickerson...
...police gunfire, which took innocent victims in Newark and Detroit last year. On the target range they can hit the head of a man's silhouette at 300 yards. A $25,000 trailer has been fitted out as a mobile command post, with an armored underside to fend off Molotov cocktails, and a smaller van is available for secondary commanders. Fibre shields, straight out of Ivanhoe, and bulletproof vests have been bought for men in danger areas. The force this summer will have nearly 700 walkie-talkies (v. 58 in 1965) to link commanders with front-line cops...
...students chanting "De Gaulle assassin!" massed and marched. Then, after flickering hopes for a compromise with the government faded, they rebuilt their paving-stone-and-auto barricades. Late at night, the gendarme phalanxes charged-and nearly a square mile of Paris turned into a battlefield. As retreating students hurled Molotov cocktails and set fire to many autos, the explosion of their gasoline tanks mixed with the pop of police tear-gas grenades. In a belated weekend effort to restore calm, Premier Georges Pompidou proclaimed on radio and television that reform of the university system was "indispensable," and promised to reopen...
...give today's young protesters pause to discover that way back in 1943 this chap Wylie was throwing verbal Molotov cocktails at authority, the church, motherhood, scientists and economists. His book Generation of Vipers, written in a mood of "ribaldry and rage," became a famous bestseller. True, it did not inspire street riots or start campus revolutions, but at least it gave aid and comfort to thousands of as yet un-Freudianized young men and women who wanted to reject their mothers...