Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there the woman collapsed, and later died on the way to the hospital. Her family contended that she suffered a heart attack after officers pushed her to the floor. A day after word of her death spread through the neighborhood, hundreds of youths gathered in the streets and attacked riot squads that had been sent to the area. The police, who were carrying only plastic shields, were showered with flaming gasoline bombs. Four teenage boys, three black and one white, were arrested later in the week in connection with the policeman's death. The oldest was 15, the youngest...
...governments not to "push us too far." His intransigence only hardened demands for bold reforms. Whereas many critics were disposed in August to consider a gradual easing of apartheid, by last week, as Botha's state of emergency entered its twelfth week and two more blacks were killed by riot police, they seemed unwilling to embrace reforms that fell shy of a total renunciation of all racialistic policies...
...area's economic distress. Unemployment in Handsworth, for instance, stands at 36%, nearly three times the national average. Yet even the Labor Party opposition was reluctant to ascribe the rampage purely to economic conditions, and Thatcher, for her part, rejected the notion outright. She denounced those who blamed the riot on unemployment as "Moaning Minnies...
...stranded passengers. Panish once arrived at London's Heathrow, he recalls, and saw "bodies strewn on the floor, literally thousands of people jammed in." When he was fogged in at New York's Kennedy on another occasion, "there was just no place to put us. It was a near riot...
...floors is from the same French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main interior space may seem too authentic: the muddy green and stained-glass glow and riot of gold are, all together, extremely rich. The room's Gilded Age swank is gorgeous, not inspiring...