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Because Harvard rents the Arboretum from Boston, the city is responsible for providing its security. In the wake of last week's stabbing. Ashton has stepped up negotiations with the city's park commissioner over the provision of rangers on horseback to petrol during the day. Boston officials refused to comment on the negotiations...
According to most accounts, Paul is a very odd, timid exception in a city that has become famous for its violent children. In fact, the reverse is true. There are plenty of violent children in Belfast, to be sure: kids who kill time stealing cars for joyrides or lobbing petrol bombs at the army. But they are a small knot of a minority. Most Belfast children are like Paul. They have not all suffered so directly from the Troubles, but their response to the Troubles is similar. They carry no hatred in their hearts, they show a will to survive...
...Brixton, a depressed district in south London with a population that is 36% black, demanded greater police protection from rising street crime. Then young blacks, angered by heavy-landed "stop and search" measures vigorously enforced by the police, went on a rampage with stones, bricks, iron bars and petrol bombs. The disorders spread to many other communities in Britain. When it was over, an estimated 3,000 people had been arrested and 1,500 policemen injured...
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir David McNee held out the possibility that the riot had been politically inspired. Said he: "You don't find petrol bombs and the kind of missiles that have been thrown at my officers just by chance." Indeed one sign of Britain's growing racial tension has been clashes between blacks and neofascist white organizations like the thuggish National Front. Brixton's riot did not seem to follow that disturbing model, but instead traced another pattern, one that could be copied elsewhere. As a Brixton resident gloomily put it, "Next time it might...
...role in the Middle East and have the P.L.O. recognized by a grateful Washington. Arafat's organization has been recognized by some 110 nations, and its $1 million-a-day budget is increasingly backed by contributions from individual Arabs and wealthy Palestinians, decreasing its financial dependency on Arab petrol powers. Last week, at his headquarters in Beirut, Arafat discussed these and other matters with Chief of Correspondents Richard L. Duncan and TIME'S Abu Said Abu Rish. Excerpts from the interview...