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Poisoned Atmosphere. It was such conditions that prompted Catholics to begin agitating in 1968 for civil rights reforms, better jobs and improved housing. As the civil rights movement grew, Protestant extremists bristled until finally, in August 1969, they responded by rampaging through Catholic areas, smashing windows and tossing petrol bombs. The Irish Republican Army proved unable to protect the Catholics; some sneeringly said the initials I.R.A. really stood for "I Ran Away." A more militant, revolution-bent branch broke off from the official I.R.A., began caching arms, and eventually launched a campaign of riot and terror. The goal...
...area. It is a place where the city's mostly Protestant police "do what they like," say sullen residents. This night they did, using batons and water cannons furiously in the narrow streets, as the Bogsiders fought back ferociously. Bricks ricocheted off buildings or disintegrated shop windows. Petrol bombs bounced and flared in the glass-shard-littered streets. One crowd attacked a police station and another overturned a police truck and set it afire. Though 290 were wounded in the fray, miraculously no one died...
...offers such values as contour bumpers, bigger engines and more leg room. To dramatize the car's jumbo gas tank (19 gallons v. the Mustang's 16), one television commercial shows a gang of toughs-"Hey hood, look at the hood!" their leader shouts-siphoning petrol from a parked Javelin. A magazine ad goes even further in highlighting the Javelin's supposed advantages by picturing it side by side with a Mustang-even though the latter is a '67 model, while the Javelin is a '68. Wells, Rich, Greene reports that it tried without success...
...kids, if you act now, you can thrill to the widescreen, Technicolor destruction of the Nazi fuel depot as millions of gallons of burning petrol light up the sky. There hasn't been so much oil on the screen since the last closeup of Elvis Presley's hair...
...kills a small boy while driving drunk. The duchess is a Lady Macbeth in mink who fears that a scandal will stall her husband's diplomatic career and persuades him to step on the gas so he won't have to stand up in court. A little petrol does not clear them of the deed, however. Richard Conte, the unscrupulous house detective, puts two and two together and decides that they add up to $10,000-blackmail...