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...clothing caught fire at home; in San Jose, Calif. As a Brooklyn high school teacher, Wolfe was fascinated by the Russian Revolution and became a Communist organizer and teacher. In 1929 he traveled to Moscow for the Third Communist International, where he jousted verbally with Stalin, Trotsky and Molotov. This temerity won him two months' detention; Wolfe's disillusionment with totalitarianism soon followed. He turned to historical examinations of Communism, including his classic study of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, Three Who Made a Revolution (1948), which has been printed in 28 languages...
Although several Molotov cocktails had been thrown through the windows of his house, French police speculate that Peiper's last moments began with gunfire: his hunting rifle along with three empty cartridges were found on his terrace. With positive identification of the charred body difficult, some townspeople began wondering whether Peiper might have in fact staged the shooting and fire to cover his own getaway. Mayor Rigoulot, for his part, let it be known that, even before the blaze, he had decided not to renew the German's residence permit next year...
...week, often turning violent. Mobs besieged embassies and consulates in about a dozen cities. Flames gutted Spain's mission in Lisbon; a bomb exploded in the garden of the embassy in Ankara. In Rome and Milan, angry mobs set fire to Spanish tourist buses, and assaulted shops with Molotov cocktails. Danes smashed the windows of Spain's embassy and trade mission in Copenhagen. Paris was engulfed by the worst outburst of violence since the 1968 stu dent demonstrations as peaceful marches by leftists disintegrated into full-fledged rioting...
...students and angry parents--that if the police hadn't been present in such numbers on the opening days of school, large scale outbreaks of violence would have occurred. What is not so clear, however, is whether the violence that has erupted sporadically at night--with street marauders throwing molotov cocktails and darts at the police--will cease in time. The people who are responsible for the violence could become more politically aware of the consequences of their acts. If they continue long enough, requiring massive police patrols of city streets, the costs to the state and city could...
...erupted every night, chiefly scattered skirmishes involving white youths who hurled rocks and beer bottles at police. Some whites were also irate that Senator Edward Kennedy has urged compliance with the court's busing order. The house in Brookline where John F. Kennedy was born was damaged by a Molotov cocktail. Painted on the front sidewalk was a piece of angry advice: BUS TEDDY...