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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managed to take dynamite from the mining company, and they distributed it carefully to each community. A campesino experienced in guerilla warfare demonstrated the production of grenades using a half stick of dynamite, tin cans, and scraps of metal and glass. Another man showed the group how to make Molotov cocktails, filling glass bottles with gasoline and old rags. These homemade weapons and an occasional rifle left over from the '52 revolution were all the people had to defend themselves. In return for the dynamite, the campesinos agreed to provide food to the miners as supplies...

Author: By Charles R. Hale, | Title: Resistance to the Bolivian Coup: A Personal Account | 5/7/1981 | See Source »

University police arrested Ngo Thursday night after he allegedly hurled a Molotov cocktail at Long V. Ngo '68, a speaker at an East Asian legal forum in the Science Center, as the panelist entered a car parked on Oxford...

Author: By L.joseph Garcia, | Title: Legal Aid Fund Established for Refugee | 4/29/1981 | See Source »

...damage caused by the blitz in World War II. This time the damage was self-inflicted. For three nights, the crowded, hardscrabble neighborhood of 62,000 had been torn by the worst interracial rioting the country had ever experienced. Gangs of predominantly black West Indian youths hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails at hundreds of riot police. Waves of other youngsters took part in an orgy of burning and looting By the time a tense calm finally returned to Brixton, the toll of violence was stark: 149 police injured, one of whom remained unconscious days later; 58 civilians hurt; 120 buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Soul Searching in Scorched Ruins, Brixton Riots Stir Anguish | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

...Saturday afternoon that draws all of London into the streets. As two bobbies pounded their beat in Brixton, a grimy, racially mixed neighborhood south of the Thames, they stopped to question a black youth. A hostile crowd gathered, and suddenly all hell seemed to break loose. Rocks, bricks and Molotov cocktails began to fly. As police reinforcements rushed in, an orgy of burning and looting swept down Railton Road, a principal neighborhood shopping avenue, leaving automobiles gutted and shops in flames. Streets were littered with looted appliances, clothing and costume jewelry. At the peak of the violence, more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Bloody Saturday | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

...again, this time to "Black Power" (a phrase made prominent by SNCC member Willie Ricks), and proceeded to expel its white members. Before the 1960s ended, it had forsaken the "non-violent" in its name, and become the "Student National Coordinating Committee." It began to speak a new language--Molotov cocktails, inflaming, needling, never giving an inch...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: A Radical Rise and Fall | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

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