Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Imbert gathered 2,000 troops to attack an estimated 1,000 rebels holed up in an area that contains, among other things, low-income dwellings, small shops, the city's only peanut oil plant and the Pepsi-Cola plant, which provided an almost limitless supply of bottles for Molotov cocktails...
...propaganda campaign to destroy the country's institutions," said Lleras Restrepo. And sure enough, its institutions were growing shakier by the day. Toward week's end, university students protesting U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic went on a seven-hour rampage in Bogotá, slinging stones and Molotov cocktails, breaking windows in a U.S.-Colombian cultural center, and taking over two radio stations. When police finally restored order, more than 100 people were injured. Valencia promptly seized upon the riot as an excuse to declare a state of siege...
...airport. The whole country cheered his courage, and before long he was making speeches calling for reform and denouncing Bolivia's politicians. Then the assassination attempts began. One bomb exploded in his auto (he was elsewhere), another went off under his bed (he was not home), a Molotov cocktail was hurled at his bedroom window (it fell short...
...first step toward the sabotage, Collier ordered Ray Wood to pick up some planks and nails to make spiked boards for puncturing police-car tires, and gasoline bottles for Molotov cocktails. Collier also began talking about setting up three-man demolition teams to knock out U.S. oilfields and military installations. Early this month, Collier and Wood went to Canada to make final arrangements for bringing in 30 sticks of dynamite. A frowsy, 6-ft. blonde named Michelle Duclos, 26, was to bring the dynamite from Montreal to New York in her car. She is a member of the separatist Rassemblement...
Even as a simple recapitulation the book leaves several questions unanswered--some even unmentioned. The authors rather glibly say the riots were unorganized, and probably they are right. But I can remember seeing a widely-distributed pamphlet describing how to make Molotov cocktails; and I have heard innumerable stories: riot schools organized by Black Muslims and others, young people brought in busses from the Lower East Side to reinforce the rioters, money being passed out in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant bars, a comment supposedly made by H.L. Hunt that you only need $50,000 to start a riot...