Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ATLANTA-Cuban inmates fighting deportation torched buildings and reportedly seized 75 hostages in a lunchtime riot at Atlanta's federal prison yesterday, two days after a similar uprising in Louisiana where prisoners continued to hold captives...
Those prisoners, who had at first demanded to remain in the United States and not be prosecuted for the riot and hostagetaking, were demanding outright freedom on yesterday, said Warden J.R. Johnson...
...center was surrounded by hundreds of law officers after the riot left 23 people injured Saturday night...
...armored car and busloads of officers in riot gear helped ring the 48-acre Federal Detention Center outside Oakdale, a town of 7,000 in rural south-central Louisiana...
...Calero speech, the audience was even ideologically screened. What could security have feared after Laub had been subdued? Certainly an audience of 350 conservatives and press people was not going to riot. Even the remote possibility that another 20 Laubs were out there should not have daunted the Harvard Police. The only hindrance to the continuation of Calero's speech was Harvard's sqeamishness in the face of physical protest...