Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...like two years of unremitting public contempt to throw a wet blanket on a party. The 36th convention of the Tailhook Association, the Navy and Marine Corps carrier pilots society, took place in San Diego last weekend, and it was a somewhat more low-key gathering than the bacchanalian riot that occurred the last time the organization met, two years ago in Las Vegas. Back then, the attendees sexually assaulted dozens of women, and their behavior resulted in 40 disciplinary actions, 11 court-martial investigations, the resignation of a Navy Secretary, the near firing of the Navy's top admiral...
...Ostankino television center cut off the broadcast. Correspondent Sally Donnelly, who had recently arrived from Los Angeles to begin a tour of duty in Moscow, was in the midst of a leisurely get-acquainted drive around the capital when she and reporter Ann Simmons found themselves snarled in a riot-caused traffic jam. As Donnelly watched anti-Yeltsin rebels mix Molotov cocktails, she says, she was momentarily reminded of last year's upheaval in Los Angeles, which she covered...
With Israeli and Palestinian extremists opposing the autonomy agreement, the police cadets' riot-control training may prove more useful than courses in directing traffic. And so far, recruits have not been instructed on dealings with Israeli settlers and security forces. Al Sadi brushes aside the possibility of politically charged, violent confrontation. "We can solve things through dialogue," he insists. "Our job is to protect people and prevent crime...
Scorsese's style is still intelligently abustle: fast dissolves of an opera audience, a quiet riot of gold when the blond countess receives yellow roses from Newland, a slow-motion vignette of working men -- the people whose labor subsidizes the idle class. Throughout, he shows he can be as attentive to the tiniest twinges of the heart as he has been to the gunfire of taxi drivers and goodfellas. Here, instead of shouting, people speak softly and in code. The movie is 135 thrilling minutes waiting for someone to come to the point. And that is the point...
...nation's three largest ethnic groups -- Yoruba, Ibo and Hausa -- appeared in Lagos' crowded slums, setting off a massive exodus. Those with means sent their families out of the country. The poor, the overwhelming majority, sent their children to home villages in the countryside. State security officers and riot police & rounded up human-rights leaders and interrogated them. False reports in a government-controlled newspaper claimed that critics of Babangida were secretly being financed by the U.S. embassy. "They want to use the threat of a new civil war to bring out their tanks again," said a human-rights activist...