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Judith ("Josie") Bissell, 33, whose husband Silas is a descendant of the carpet-cleaner family. She graduated with a degree in fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1967 and was arrested with Silas in 1970 on charges of planting a Molotov cocktail at the University of Washington Air Force ROTC building. Silas' whereabouts are still unknown...
...news of their suicides sparked scattered but ugly protests. In the Italian cities of Turin, Bologna and Leghorn, bombs were tossed into showrooms displaying German cars. Two unoccupied German tourist buses were set aflame in Paris. In Rome, police used tear gas to disburse some 800 youths, armed with Molotov cocktails, who were marching toward the German embassy and the Lufthansa ticket office. Leftists also demonstrated in Athens and Vienna; in London, protesters chanted "Murder! Murder!" outside the German embassy...
...lure any followers from the community that his brother had founded. From San Diego, Ervil issued warnings to the townsfolk of Los Molinos to repent, but few listened. Then, on the night after Christmas in 1974, Ervil's disciples roared through the community in two trucks, tossing Molotov cocktails into the adobe huts and shooting people as they fled into the dusty street. Two were killed and a dozen wounded...
...weapons on both sides were less than nuclear-concussion grenades, Molotov cocktails, tear gas, clubs and stones -but they inflicted some cruel injuries. One demonstrator, a 31-year-old chemistry teacher, died when a concussion grenade ruptured his lungs and caused internal hemorrhaging. At least 100 demonstrators and ten police were hurt, including some on both sides who lost hands or feet when concussion grenades exploded prematurely. The environmentalists, neatly bottled up on a narrow road, never had a chance to reach the nuclear site a mile from the battlefield, and their cause ended up as another casualty...
Later, during talks with other officials in the Legislative Palace, she could hear the shouts of between 100 and 150 students yelling "Yankee imperialism!" and "Imperialist Rosalynn Carter!" A couple of Molotov cocktails were thrown and the police fired some tear gas, but the demonstrators got no closer than 100 yds. away from her motorcade and evidently had no intention of threatening her personally...