Word: rioted
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Since widespread Islamist violence and the government's repressive response have just about closed the country to outsiders, no one can gauge the full extent of Algeria's torment. Certainly there is little chance for a full investigation of the prison riot demanded by exiled leaders of the Islamic Salvation Front (F.I.S.). The bloodletting also makes it more difficult for Islamists who advocate a dialogue with the government. ``The military ruined the possibility of negotiations on purpose,'' said a source close to the F.I.S. leadership in Algiers...
...said a student attempting to disengage a toddler from his calf. "Playing with them definitely brings back your sense of perspective." And for those feeling a bit lonely, the children lend Mather a sort of family-type atmosphere. The kids are almost ridiculously well-behaved, making Mather's sophisticated riot-proof mechanisms unnecessary...
...does not face the imminent collapse of his regime. His tactical skills, his powers of endurance and the affection of many Cubans are intact. There is no organized opposition to him inside the country. His army and security forces are large and efficient. Despite spasms of discontent, like the riot last August that helped unleash the rafter exodus, there is nothing like a Tiananmen brewing. And unlike many similar leaders, he has surrounded himself not with cronies and coat holders but with the best and the brightest his country has to offer. He may be constrained by a terrible economy...
Wallace has furnished eclectic, listener-friendly music (allusions to Puccini's Tosca, which Milk attended the night before his death, abound), but he lacks the skill in building ensembles that would have made the end of Act I (the 1969 Stonewall riot) or Act II (a high-camp, dikes-on-trikes gay and lesbian rally) really stirring. His most effective work-in what surely is an operatic first-comes in the tender love duet for Harvey and his boyfriend, Scott Smith, sung while they lie in bed together...
...troops in Panama City tightened security and mobilized anti-riot squads today as they prepared to repatriate 7,500 Cubans held there sincelast summer's boatlift crisis. It won't be easy: almost none of the refugees wants to return to the spartan U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and so far, at least 13 have scaled chain-link fences topped by razor wire surrounding the camps, two have drowned trying to swim the Panama canal and another dozen have attempted suicide. (Only 1,171 out of the nearly 8,500 originally brought there from Guantanamo have obtained visas...