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...young man for flattening the tire of a parked patrolcar. A crowd circles the men, and through a narrow gap between a parked cars a swarthy man dashes. He leaps on the back of one cop and wrestles him to the ground. When his partner comes to the policeman's aid, he too is jumped, and all the assailants get away. It is perhaps the most personal violence of the weekend, and certainly the most unprovoked, but the crowd doesn't seem shocked--"Pigs suck," one group yells. A more ideological element at the other end of the parking...
...demonstrators rammed barricades with commandeered buses and clashed with club-swinging riot police. Clouds of tear gas hung over Chongro, one of the city's busiest commercial streets, as army troops in armored personnel carriers crept up in case they were needed to back up beleaguered police. One policeman was killed, while scores of both police and students were seriously injured. Hundreds of other protesters were arrested, many of them none too gently. The trouble subsided after student leaders agreed to suspend the demonstrations to give the government a chance to respond to their demands...
...this time: brain tumor? Hodgkin's disease? coronary bypass? Segal has something more imaginative in mind. In 1968 Husband Bob attended a conference in the south of France. The country was gripped by unrest, and he managed to get his head in the way of a policeman's cosh. First aid was administered by a beautiful female physician who then prescribed house calls. What patient could resist such doctor's orders...
...Church in Union City a banner proclaims WELCOME BROTHERS. Some 100 people mill around waiting for public health nurses to take their blood to screen cases of TB and VD. Many are dazed by lack of sleep. One man, who was bitten on the back by a Cuban policeman, has a fever from the festering wound. But for all of them, St. Anthony's is just a way station. "We hope to process 20 a day," says Father Michael Fuino. "That means 20 will leave here every day not only to go to new jobs, but also to lodgings...
Lock had played a moderating influence from the beginning, telling his captors: "Look, if you start shooting people, if you kill even one of us, you know you will have no chance after that, don't you?" Lock wore his policeman's tunic throughout the siege, and even put on his hat when he spoke to his superiors through the embassy windows. The reason for Lock's formality: his .38-cal. revolver was hidden beneath the tunic. Lock told the other two British captives about the gun, but felt that if he tried...