Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rocks and bottles flew. Looting, at first dared by only a few, became a mob delirium as big crowds now gathered. Arsonists lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as some 15,000 police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was paralyzed...
...barricade consisting of one crane and two buses. After several charges, police opened fire; the fighting spread to the surrounding streets and lasted through much of the night. The police used truncheons and pistols; the rioters used stones and took up a collection among bystanders to buy gasoline for Molotov cocktails...
...stepped-up criticism is attributable both to the movement's temperamental righteousness and to its political immaturity. "Their power mode," says a top Republican strategist, "is not properly adjusted to governing. They are better at Molotov cocktailing." Moreover, New Right fund raisers have a professional stake in continuing conservative discontent. Says a White House aide: "Viguerie and company must keep their mailing lists activated through fear...
Street skirmishes flared for the next eight hours. Some of the demonstrators, who built barricades of benches and trash bins, attacked the ZOMOs with rocks, slingshots and Molotov cocktails that turned at least two police vans into smoldering hulks. By the time the struggle quieted down around midnight, the streets of Gdansk were littered with broken glass, paving stones and empty tear-gas canisters...
...formidable array of police and army units. According to one report, the authorities had sent some 15,000 extra police troops to Wroclaw in anticipation of major trouble. The main battle started in front of the city opera house. As in Gdansk, demonstrators erected barricades and hurled Molotov cocktails at police vans, setting at least one on fire. Some residents even dropped flowerpots and bottles from their windows on passing ZOMO troops...