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...crowd of about 60 mixed-race youths, known in the lexicon of South African racism as colored, made their way from the township of Scottsdene on the eastern fringes of Cape Town to the adjoining white suburb of Kraaifontein. There they roamed through the streets throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at the well-kept homes before being driven away by white residents who fired at them with pistols and shotguns. Later, police arrested two young men who had been wounded in the ^ shooting. The significance of the incident was that for the first time since the country's current racial...
...windows and waving guns. The Goffers moved out the next day. In the same neighborhood, a Hispanic family's house was fire bombed on Thanksgiving. The same week, in a white neighborhood on the southwest side, a black family's house was set afire with a Molotov cocktail...
...They asked to bring in investors. We said fine, provided they are not P.L.O. They complained about censorship: they had a long list of books they wanted to publish. We said to go ahead, so long as they are not about how to make a bomb or a Molotov cocktail...
...remembers, "We sang songs as we fought the Communists." They demolished the government military post at nearby Khoshi and barricaded the road into Dobanday. For eight months they fought a series of bloody battles, resisting the force of gunships and armored convoys with captured machine guns, homemade grenades and Molotov cocktails...
...France Flight 747 from Frankfurt had just begun its descent toward Paris in the late-afternoon sun last Tuesday when three men, brandishing knives and Molotov cocktails, burst into the cockpit and demanded to be taken to Iran. Thus began for their 61 hostages a harrowing 46-hour journey of nearly 3,000 miles, with stops in Geneva, Beirut, Cyprus and, finally, Tehran. There the hijackers, by now mysteriously armed with revolvers and automatic pistols, declared that starting Thursday morning they would kill one French passenger every hour until the French government agreed to release five Islamic fanatics in prison...