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Since April, Weatherman-type gangs of young men and women have made almost daily hit-and-run attacks throughout Calcutta. They have ambushed three police vehicles, killing one policeman and injuring three. One gang stabbed a schoolteacher to death. A plainclothes cop was chased and killed by a knife-wielding mob. Nine movie houses showing an anti-Chinese film were attacked, their audiences routed. Public buses and trams were firebombed. Naxalites ransacked a printing plant handling a U.S. Government account, and sacked the local Ford Foundation office...
Farce is tragedy out for a good time. Its characters miss disaster by a pulsebeat (What if the husband had peeked behind the door? What if the policeman had knocked a minute earlier?). Its situations are improbabilities made tantalizingly possible...
...over." Callison good-naturedly threw up his hands: "Wow, Liz, are you dumb! Just like that, huh? Close the university. Wow." She told her father that he and his fellow cops ought to be out cracking the heads of industrial polluters, not the young. He replied that "a policeman has to enforce the law that the majority approves." At one point, he said wearily, "If you only knew how much time I spend trying to keep police from swinging to right-wing extremism." But she persisted: "Shouldn't we be on the same side...
...disheveled hippies -had been waiting for six hours or more. The young people passed the time dozing on the grass, discussing astrological signs or swapping stories in the harshly lit shed that serves as a waiting room. Quite a few passengers were smoking-but not necessarily tobacco. A Luxembourg policeman moved among the more exuberant youngsters, sniffing for the telltale scent of marijuana, which is something like burning autumn leaves. "Pigs are pigs any place in the world," muttered one youth...
Late Saturday, four plainclothesmen seized one man. Alvaro Moralez, near the barricade, charging him with assault on a policeman and possession of a deadly weapon. Moralez yesterday denied the charges, saying that the unmarked police car had rushed at him and that he had thrown a brick in self-defense...