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...widening violence also saw two Romanian migrant workers killed by a bomb while repairing Israel's border fence with Gaza. By week's end, the Israeli army had launched seven incursions into Palestinian-held territory, including a missile attack on a car in the West Bank that killed a policeman and an activist in Yasser Arafat's Fateh movement. An assault on Palestinian police headquarters in Gaza City also injured at least 20 people. The attacks on Palestinian targets were in apparent retaliation for the bombing that killed the Romanian workers. More than 100,000 migrant workers live in Israel...
...MalacaNang, having lived there as the daughter of former President Diosdado Macapagal. Therefore, she knew all the palace's secret passages and escape routes. Outside, police battled rioters for more than 12 hours. More than 100 people were injured, and at least four protesters were killed along with one policeman, who tripped and began firing wildly into the crowd with his revolver. When he emptied his cartridge, say eyewitnesses, the mob descended and beat him to death...
People like Randall Adams, who was nearly executed for the 1976 killing of a Dallas policeman until Errol Morris’s 1988 documentary, The Thin Blue Line, demonstrated that Adams’s principal accuser had in fact committed the crime...
...been nearly five weeks since a white Cincinnati policeman gunned down Timothy Thomas, a 19-year-old, unarmed black man. But instead of easing with time, the racial tensions in this city just keep bubbling to the surface...
...leader occupying the two-story white house the black mayor now lives in. James R. Venable, Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was also a lawyer. According to local historian Walter McCurdy, Venable once successfully defended two Black Panthers accused of killing a white policeman in Louisiana. Venable took pay from the Black Panthers, McCurdy says, and gave it to the K.K.K. But that's a long time ago now. Too long for some black residents here to worry about. Let the rebel flag fly over those graves, says Ralph Shipp. "That's all right...