Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...report also places the start of the confrontation considerably earlier than the convention week-there had been riots in Chicago's black ghettos in 1966 and again in April 1968, after the murder of Martin Luther King. Mayor Daley's own riot-study committee (Daniel Walker was No. 2 man) cited the restraint practiced by the police as a major factor in keeping the April riots from becoming even "more violent and widespread." But after April 1968, Daley criticized his police for their restraint and urged them to shoot to kill arsonists and maim looters. Says the report...
...anti-Communist unions allied in protest for the first time in twenty years, demonstrators poured into the piazzas of Rome and Milan to demand higher pension and social security benefits and to curse the rising cost of living. Outside the Fiat automobile plant in Turin, police broke up a riot with tear...
...Riot!--Some living theatre of sorts stopping here on its way to Off-Broadway. At the FIRST PARISH CHURCH, Harvard Square...
...Riot has been developed by the OM Theatre Workshop of Boston, under the direction of Julie Portman. The entire company contributes perfectly to the total effect. Riot is born of despair and imparts only frustration. How you individually manage to work out that frustration is the real challenge of the evening...
...play presents all the old questions, and it shows the old answers aren't answers at all. Visiting alumni who can't buy their way into the Yale game this weekend would do well to catch a performance. So would their revolutionary sons. For the former, Riot probably means destruction; for the latter, regeneration. And for both it may be inevitable...