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...energy aroused more public opposition than in West Germany. For more than a decade, environmental groups like the radical Green Party have spearheaded huge antinuke rallies, protest marches and sit-ins. In March 1981, 80,000 demonstrators stormed a nuclear construction site north of Hamburg. Some tossed rocks and Molotov cocktails, and 15,000 helmeted police fought back with water cannons and tear gas. Undeterred by such confrontations, Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government is pushing nuclear power as a way of cutting West Germany's dependence on imported fuel for 60% of its energy supplies. The country...
...Errol Louis had been in Prague in 1968, he would have been throwing Molotov cocktails at Soviet tanks. If Lieber and Baumgartner had been bright young apparatchiks fresh out of Moscow University, would they have been draft resisters? I doubt...
...next night, more than a dozen youths carrying Molotov cocktails appeared outside the Hawkins home but were dispersed by warning shots fired by family members. Twice more that night the youths returned, firing barrages at the house and once even pinning down police called by the family. Says Hawkins' son Elton: "It was like a war zone." His family and at times the police have urged Hawkins to move out. But he is adamant, and his family understands. Says Felecia McGlover, one of 72 grandchildren: "The thing about my grandfather is that he has a very strong will...
Rocks and bottles flew. Looting, at first dared by only a few, became a mob delirium as big crowds now gathered. Arsonists lobbed Molotov cocktails at newly pillaged stores. Fires started in the shops, spread swiftly to homes and apartments. Snipers took up posts in windows and on rooftops. For four days and into the fifth, mobs stole, burned and killed as some 15,000 police, National Guardsmen and federal troops fought to smother the fire. The city was paralyzed...
...Communism's 37 years in power in Russia, leaders have fallen from power in dramatically diverse ways. Some cringingly confessed to being jackals, venal hirelings in the pay of the capitalist enemy. Some went silently to the cellar. Some, like Molotov in his days as premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. But nobody before had ever fallen as Georgy Malenkov, once the presumed heir to Stalin's dictatorship, fell last week...