Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, Poher asked Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin to reduce the number of policemen blanketing Paris on riot standby. He thought that they were a partisan element as well, tending to give credence to De Gaulle's oft-proclaimed prophecy that after his departure chaos would ensue. Then he dismissed Gaullist Jacques Foccart as Secretary-General for African Affairs. Knowledgeable Frenchmen were delighted: Foccart's African designation was in fact a façade for his job as boss of the Gaullist "Barbouzes," a thuggish lot of secret police and informers...
Bulletproof glass and riot shutters guard the main entrance. A tunnel enables employees to enter the building from a parking lot, and all must carry cards to gain admittance. Even so, last week a militant black leader managed to slip in and appear in the city room to berate an editor. Simultaneously, the editor's phone rang. It was a proud guard, calling to report that he had stopped two men trying to get by. They turned out to be FBI agents...
...large weekend does have its advantages. First, hundreds of people from a basically homogeneous group all bent on having fun are, of themselves, bound to create an experience which no committee can plan fully. It is a unity not unlike that generated by a football game or a freshman riot. Second, Jubilee is a great release from the pressures of the freshman year. And third, it's probably the last time for the next twenty eight years that members of the class will get together socially and informally (and by that time they may be too old to enjoy themselves...
...emphasis on quality has paid off. KPFK has won awards for its documentaries on Martin Luther King and the 1965 Watts riot. On all three stations, nearly half the program day is reserved for news and public affairs; music selections range from Bach cantatas in the morning to acid rock after midnight...
Over a year ago (while minister of the Old Ship Church in Hingham, Massachusetts) I predicted, via a sermon, that Harvard would riot precisely because the administration would not, or could not listen to what many students were saying...