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...recovery. Arafat avoided inflammatory language, calling the attack "a criminal attempt to torpedo the peace process." In Hebron, Israeli security forces coordinated closely with their Palestinian counterparts, who are already in position in the city but function quietly, without uniforms. When, just after the shooting, Hebron youths began to riot, Arafat's gendarmes fanned out, persuading them to desist. Said an officer: "We don't want to give the Israelis any excuse to delay their redeployment...
...last week. "George Bush is our Bull Connor," he told the Congressional Black Caucus Annual Legislative Conference, referring to the legendary Birmingham, Ala., police chief who attacked peaceful civil rights marchers with dogs and water cannons in 1963. A few minutes earlier, the entertainer Harry Belafonte had read the riot act to Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama...
...spread to towns outside Belfast. The burning cars and rubble-strewn streets they left in their wake were a sharp reminder of just how severe this outburst had been. Earlier this year, the Police Service of Northern Ireland had congratulated itself for not having to use plastic bullets, a riot control weapon, for two and a half years - last weekend, police and soldiers fired more than 400 of the projectiles. Perhaps more significantly, the British soldiers also used live ammunition when they came under fire from loyalist gunmen - the first such attacks in years...
...clock, we're going to start shooting all the rescuers.'" One man was standing on Canal Boulevard with water up to his chest wearing a mink coat that he had liberated from a store. "This natural disaster is beginning to look like a Watts riot," said a worried congressional aide in Washington as he watched the chaos. "There's something really ugly going on here, something wrong at a deeper level...
Still, it is hard to know when a flash-fire protest in a prairie will turn into something more. Surely it didn't happen when Martin Sheen called (which was on Day 5). Nor did it when the police donned riot gear, as they did on Day 7, when the President's motorcade came within 100 feet of Sheehan's ramshackle encampment. (Riot gear is casual fashion for police at protests these days, after all.) Attendance figures--about 100 by midweek--did not break any records either...