Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Detroiters have done just that for years with no result. Their schools are going broke. At night, the city's residents avoid going out for fear of violence; that violence included a record 750 homicides last year. Race relations have scarcely improved since the 1967 riot in which 43 people were killed. So many whites have fled to the suburbs that the city's population dropped 8% in the past three years alone, to 1.4 million. Now, more than half of Detroit's residents are black, and many are poor...
...Patrick's Day Riot in 1972 first put Walpole in the news and established Boone's opposition. In an attempt to embarrass Boone's administration, the guards left the prison and then claimed that there was a race riot inside. Boone told newsmen that Walpole did not have a race riot but a guard-instigated riot. He proved this by showing that although the prisoners had done $1 million of material damage, not one prisoner was hurt...
Chief Minister Somare also must deal with budding separatism on a larger scale. Papuans, for instance, charge that Australian aid-$760 million over the past five years-has gone mostly to New Guinea. Tempers grew so hot over this issue recently that a two-day riot broke out at the annual Papua v. New Guinea soccer match. On the island of Bougainville, which is part of the new nation, there is a growing feeling that the islanders should get a greater share of the $150 million in profits expected this year from an immense Australian-operated copper mine...
Partly because of Judge Hoffman's earlier excesses, two appeals court decisions had thrown out not only the convictions of five of the seven for crossing state lines with intent to foment riots but also the 159 contempt citations handed down by Hoffman. The Government decided against retrying the riot charges, but U.S. Attorney James Thompson overcame the prosecutorial reluctance of superiors on the contempt issue because he believed that the obstructionist tactics of the defense during the first trial should not stand unpunished. After a five-week trial, Judge Gignoux concluded that only 13 of the contempt counts...
...economy, however, caught in a spiraling 15 per cent inflation--the worst in Europe at the time--was starting to have an effect on the Greek people. A memorial service for George Papandreou, former prime minister, brought on riots which for the first time attacked the police and repulsed the riot units with stones and sheer mass...