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...Ledbury Road, hoodlums worked systematically down the street hurling bricks and milk bottles at every house where Negroes lived. When they reached a Negro bar called the Calypso Club, three Molotov cocktails (bottles filled with gasoline ignited by a wick) were hurled out at the crowd. "Kill the bloody spades!" shrieked a 15-year-old Teddy boy. Others took up the cry-but it changed to "Kill the bloody coppers!" as truncheon-flailing police surged into the mob. Dozens were arrested and police stations stacked up piles of bicycle chains and tire irons, flick knives and nail-studded belts taken...
...students at the National University of Mexico posted a mark that is likely to stand for years. In as terrifying a week as Mexico City has seen in years, they burned or destroyed 10 buses, worth $120,000. immobilized the national capital and its 4,500,000 inhabitants, lobbed Molotov cocktails as casually as softballs, and defied Mexico's federal government. What's more, they got away with...
Cocktails for Control. Such sport was this that next day began with a mob of 1,500 burning and looting a bus terminal, beating up drivers and running off with another 30 buses. When the police did not interfere, they stormed other terminals with Molotov cocktails. Mexico City transport was in chaos. People jammed the old streetcars, riding atop the roofs, crowded into trucks at 1? per ride. In vain Mexico City's bus drivers appealed to the students to stop. Finally, the 13 transport unions took full-page ads saying what all knew: "These young delinquents have proclaimed...
...week's end troops still ringed the inviolable campuses. Inside, students danced round blazing buses as white-clad medical students set up first-aid stations, home-economics coeds perspired prettily over soup kettles, and chemistry aspirants continued to make Molotov cocktails. The bus drivers? They got no raises, and precious little work...
Communists exercise decisive power in the daily press. Item: when known Communists were caught with a cache of Molotov cocktails near one of the points on Vice President Nixon's canceled tour of Caracas, every paper except the Roman Catholic La Religión kept the story out of print. But when one of the arrested anti-Nixon rioters explained that he had joined in for a frolic and had no Communist ties, the story got headlines...