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...students and disabled veterans staged several large demonstrations, burned Thieu posters, and hurled Molotov cocktails at the police. At one point, more than a thousand students on the old city side of the Perfume River struggled to link up with 200 others on the Hue University side. Combat police used tear gas and repeated bursts from their M-16s to break up the demonstration...
...prisoner. Some rescuers tried to reach the captive guards and pull them to safety. Others headed unresisting inmates toward the secure cell blocks. But there was an abundance of shooting. "We piled through and raced past Times Square," recalled one police sergeant. "The ones that resisted?throwing spears and Molotov cocktails?were cut down. We caught some men with arms extended to throw weapons. Anybody that resisted was killed." Claimed one officer: "They came at us like a banzai charge, waving knives and spears. Those we had to shoot...
...went pretty much according to script until a screaming band of students charged 80 policemen manning a checkpoint on a dirt road about a mile from the center of the action. Crying "korose!" (kill!), the students threw scores of Molotov cocktails, then worked over the cops with steel pipes, bamboo staves and nail-studded sticks. Some of the riot police, who do not carry guns in Japan, fled. But 30 were left slumped and bleeding on the ground. Three soon died, one with a ruptured heart and two with shattered skulls...
...political art in foreign affairs is to reduce the number of enemies of one's country and to turn yesterday's enemies into good neighbors."-Molotov, Aug. 31, 1939, explaining the Soviet-German Pact...
...literally the title of Hoffman's latest opus, Steal This Book. Frustrated at every turn, the Yippie leader last week set up shop on the sidewalk outside one of Manhattan's bookshops and began hawking the book, which offers practical instruction in gypping telephone companies, mixing Molotov cocktails and sowing pot seed. Sure enough, more people stole than bought. After disposing of 50 copies of the $1.95 volume, Hoffman reported his day's gross-$9 -and asked, "Do you think the book has a chance to make the Best-Stolen List...