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...army's immediate report was later corroborated by Lord Balniel, Minister of State for Defense, in an address to Britain's House of Commons. According to his account, as the soldiers were arresting rioters, "they came under fire from gunmen, nail bombers and petrol bombers. Between 4:17 and 4:35 p.m., a number of these men were engaged. Some gunmen and bombers were certainly hit and some almost certainly killed. The soldiers fired in self-defense, or in defense of their comrades who were threatened. I reject entirely the suggestion that they fired indiscriminately into a peaceful...
bombs, an' the rattle of machine guns; petrol is their holy water...
Japan's oil industry adds benzene and toluene to the cheaper grades of petrol, which the sun's rays convert into highly toxic gases. Compounding the ecological tragedy still further, the number of private cars in Tokyo has doubled within the past three years, and the Japanese car manufacturers, who equip automobiles exported to the U.S. with exhaust-control devices, follow no such restraints in their own domestic market...
Bonfire Barricades. In no time savage fighting broke out in the cities, particularly in Belfast's Catholic ghettos of Ardoyne, Falls Road and Ballymurphy. Bonfire barricades blazed throughout West Belfast, and petrol bombs arched in the night sky like Roman candles...
...fighting covered a wider section of Belfast than ever before. But still, much of Ulster's middle class remained physically untouched by the turmoil. Odd patches of tranquillity survived in the very midst of danger. As he dodged stones and petrol bombs, Correspondent Shaw looked inside a window to see three middle-aged women placidly watching a television documentary about East Africa...