Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bustamante cold-shouldered an Aprista delegation that called to offer him support. Instead, after a scuffle a few days later in Lima's market place, his police arrested 15 men, four of them La Tribuna staffers, and charged them with trying to start a food riot. Intent on his middle way, Bustamante wanted to make clear that he would be just as tough with Apristas as he had been with right-wing plotters...
...free-for-all; even a Communist woman deputy, Laura Diaz (known to her admirers as the "Joan Crawford of Parliament"), joined in, whacking at bearded Christian Democrats. Contestants ripped out stenographers' desks, used them as clubs. Three deputies had to be treated for injuries. It was the worst riot in the loo-year history of Parliament...
That night, in the mining town of Djerada to the south, another quarrel between an Arab and a Jewish candy vendor grew into an even bloodier riot. Arabs chased a Jew down a blind alley and hacked him to pieces. Others were clubbed or kicked to death. Then Arabs set fire to the Jewish quarters. Forty Jews, including ten children, were killed; more than 60 were wounded...
...Arab extremists for their "irresponsible acts." Later, as the Pasha entered a mosque for evening prayers, a fanatic Moslem stabbed him three times. Arabs joined Jews in stoning his assassin to death. Meanwhile the spark of racial hatred flared in Tripoli, where Arabs killed twelve Jews in another riot...
...Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous responsibilities. He is the commander of a sizable army-19,000 policemen, 11,000 firemen, 120,000 other municipal employees...