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Ambassador James Sasser knew real fear when his wife Mary told him over a mobile phone that a mob of Chinese students was smashing windows, pitching Molotov cocktails and apparently preparing to break into their Beijing residence. Sasser was half a mile away, trapped inside the U.S. embassy by a similar mob, unable to step outside the door without risking his life. "That was the worst of it all," Sasser told TIME, "not being able to get to my family." It was 3:30 on Sunday afternoon in Beijing, 34 hours after American bombs had wrecked the Chinese embassy...
Drinks served included vodka and Molotov cocktails. Haysom explains that in her experience all first-years were "sort of desperate" for these types of parties...
Drinks served included vodka and Molotov cocktails, Haysom explains that in her experience all first-years were "sort of desperate" for these types of parties...
According to a senior Palestinian security official, Arafat's contingency plan calls for the escalation of stone and Molotov cocktail attacks by civilians on Israeli troops still stationed within and just outside Palestinian cities. The idea would be to provoke the Israelis into re-entering urban areas now under Palestinian control, where they would come under fire not only from Arafat's official forces but also from illegally armed Palestinians. The result would be high casualties on both sides. Arafat, according to the security official, believes a large death toll would force the U.S. to step in to stop...
...Army had been streaming into the city for a month, brutalizing Hungary's October revolution. The foggy nights, filled all fall with the sounds of ecstatic students, were now split with the jostle of machinery--10 divisions of Soviet tanks--and the uneven light of Molotov cocktails thrown through the rain. Fear blossomed in the dampness. The Premier vanished...