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...since September. A total of 37 were killed last year, 24 the year before. Journalists are sometimes naive about their own safety, prone to an illusion that they are either bulletproof or invisible. In the mid-'60s, I walked blithely through the mobs during a riot in Harlem, with Molotov cocktails sailing off the roofs of apartment houses. I imagined that as a journalist, I was merely an invisible witness, as harmless as a recording secretary, as if I had letters of transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters completely without consequence. The rioters left me alone...
...security, Sharon has a political or military program that can transform the violent face-off into a decisive defeat of the intifada. While the term is still used, the current violence has little in common with the original intifada, in which masses of youths armed mostly with stones and molotov cocktails confronted Israeli troops in West Bank towns...
...wave of terror, hundreds of men in black-and-white robes and black face masks storming into one village after another on the island of Sulawesi, firing their automatic weapons, tossing Molotov cocktails and homemade grenades into houses and shouting at the terrified residents to get out, to never come back, and killing anyone who resisted. Batelemba, Tangkura, Sangginora, Dewua?the rolling tide of destruction 18 km long left the once prosperous settlements blackened ruins and thousands of residents hiding in nearby jungle or fleeing to the relative safety of the closest sizable Christian enclave, the lakeside town of Tentena...
...World Bank and International Monetary Fund that begins Sept. 29. The balls are thought to be the troublemakers' weapon of choice--easy to hide, easy to throw, legal to possess and dense enough to cause damage. Rioters defiantly threw them, along with less refined bricks, rocks and Molotov cocktails, at the Summit of the Americas conference in Quebec City last April. With as many as 100,000 expected to gather for the World Bank-IMF meeting, all local and federal law-enforcement agencies are on guard. "We certainly don't want to inhibit those who come to demonstrate peaceably," says...
...even he then reverted to what the Northern Irish call "what aboutery" - joining other politicians in circular arguments blaming the current outrage on some past transgression by the other side. The immediate goad here was said to be a summer full of attacks on local homes with stones and Molotov cocktails, which in turn were fueled by a varied catalog of intolerance: disputes over who could hang their flags from which lampposts, access for Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June. The tribal talk...