Word: molotovs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...morning last month, nearly 2,000 miners marched up to the chain-link security fence surrounding Kerr-McGee's site and tore down more than two miles of it with their bare hands. Security guards and hastily summoned state police were showered with rocks and Molotov cocktails. Construction equipment was torched and grass fires set. As smoke swirled around them, police fired tear gas from grenade launchers. When that did not work, National Guard helicopters were called in to dispense more tear gas. While the battle raged at the mine site, the single-story frame house in Galatia that...
That painful legislative scene was more than matched by the violence that erupted last week in front of the civic parliamentary building in West Berlin. Thousands of youths, some armed with rocks and Molotov cocktails, clashed fiercely with police in a ten-hour riot that one West German television reporter luridly described as "resembling civil war." At least 76 policemen were injured. The ugly confrontation resulted from the eviction of housing squatters from several abandoned West Berlin buildings...
...death, gangs of Catholic youths once again rampaged through the streets, despite calls from the I.R.A. itself for calm as the organization prepared its martyr's farewell. Cars and other vehicles were overturned and burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant a crudely made bomb in that city; a Belfast policeman was shot to death. Another youth died during a riot-caused auto crash. The violence spread to the Irish Republic, where a Dublin gang ran amuck...
...COCKTAIL MOLOTOV Directed and Written by Diane Kurys...
...gave the genre some local twists, such as the persistence of class conceits. Bertrand Blier (Going Places) and Wim Wenders (Kings of the Road) established the itinerary; now Diane Kurys, whose Peppermint Soda took a fresh, funny look at growing up Jewish in Paris, follows that road. Cocktail Molotov is set in May 1968, when French students and workers virtually shut down their country. Alas for Anne (Elise Caron), that is the moment she chooses to defy her bourgeois mother and take off with her lower-class lover Frederic (Philippe Lebas) and his friend (François Cluzet). The trio...