Word: riot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Riot police stopped a bus carrying Israeli Arab high school students from school in Haifa to their homes in Umm al Fahm and beat several of them, the daily newspaper Al Hamishmar reported...
...easily put the realities of life into a simple set of orders. The situation created during the control of a violent riot is much more complicated than it might seem," Barak said...
...refugee camps, was snubbed by most Israeli officials, then denied access to two camps he tried to visit. When he finally made his way into the Gaza camp at Rafah, demonstrators threw stones at his army escort, and he was accused by Israeli military authorities of provoking a riot...
...purchase of food. "We have to beat them in their pockets," said a military official. "They will not be able to carry on for long without the money they earn working either here in Gaza or in Israel." Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir suggested that if the Gazans continued to riot, they might never be allowed to return to their jobs in Israel...
Like a knife blade, the year of riot and revolution severed the U. S. from its triumphant optimism, exposing a confused, divided country that was fighting a war it could not win. The dramas of 1968 shaped the world we know today: heroes were gunned down, the Soviets trampled Prague' s spring, Richard Nixon was elected, and man for the first time orbited the moon. See NATION...