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Police injuries resulted mostly from thrown rocks and bricks. The windows of 14 police cars were smashed, and two cars were set afire by Molotov cocktails...
Hathaway is black. "The journey through black America," he reports, "revealed that a new kind of silent majority is emerging among blacks. This is not the kind of majority that throws rocks or Molotov cocktails. Nor does it march or sing We Shall Overcome." This new black majority is aroused and vengeful, hardened by events- the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., police raids on the Panthers, the pullback on integration. "All this has created new tensions, new fears in the black community," Hathaway says. "It seems to have drawn people closer together. Tragically, as that happens, black America pulls...
...hurt in the early-morning blasts, which were strikingly similar to three blasts in several New York office buildings last Nov. 11, but during the following two days news of the explosions triggered an outbreak of more than 600 phony bomb scares in a jittery New York. Three Molotov cocktails exploded in a Manhattan high school. There were scattered bomb threats elsewhere in the country, even at the Justice Department in Washington. One of them obliged Secretary of State William Rogers to leave his office. Mysterious nighttime explosions rocked a Pittsburgh shopping mall and a Washington nightclub. Another blast...
Asked about Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Molotov said: "She is three times a traitor-to her fatherland, to her father and to her children...
...Stasis but Change. This approach owes much to the late C. Wright Mills, the contentious Columbia University sociologist who died at 46 in 1962. Mills hurled his books like Molotov cocktails at the sociological myths of the time: that order prevailed, that the national institutions evolved by civilized societies remain forever faithful to their designers. An impetuous and often outrageous writer, Mills dismissed the classic image of American democracy as a "fairy tale...