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Even as a simple recapitulation the book leaves several questions unanswered--some even unmentioned. The authors rather glibly say the riots were unorganized, and probably they are right. But I can remember seeing a widely-distributed pamphlet describing how to make Molotov cocktails; and I have heard innumerable stories: riot schools organized by Black Muslims and others, young people brought in busses from the Lower East Side to reinforce the rioters, money being passed out in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant bars, a comment supposedly made by H.L. Hunt that you only need $50,000 to start a riot...
...room apartment at No. 3 Granovsky Street, a section that compares unfavorably with, say, Manhattan's West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave K. the push, including Suslov and Kosygin...
...three generals and representatives of the Buddhists, Catholics, and possibly of the students. Despite an appeal by the triumvirate "to love one another," Vietnamese continued to roam the wreckage-littered streets, setting upon one another with bricks, bamboo rods, lead pipes, meat cleavers, nail-studded clubs, chains, truncheons, Molotov cocktails. The companions of one dead Buddhist dipped their hands in his blood, smeared it on their faces as war paint. A Catholic youth lay in a first-aid room, a hatchet protruding from his head...
...Negroes swarmed into a main street, smashing windows and headlights of passing cars. A white man, Clarence Stermer, 59, suffered a heart attack when his car was bombarded with rocks. For four hours lawmen used tear gas and high-pressure fire hoses to sweep back the mob. Next night Molotov cocktails arced out of the darkness onto the roof of La-Pota's store, setting it afire-and the riot erupted again. This time it ran for 31 hours. In all, 50 people were hurt, and the police arrested 71 Negroes and whites. What was worse was the realization...
...began pelting passing police cars with bottles and rocks. Soon hundreds of Negroes were racing through the streets, smashing windows and hurling debris at police. Almost simultaneously, 20 miles south of Paterson, hit-and-run bombers in Elizabeth, a city of 110,000 people (with 20,000 Negroes), pitched Molotov cocktails into three taverns. Before long, hundreds of Negroes were flinging bottles and bricks from rooftops and street corners...