Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marcos, 66, to resign after 17 years of rule. The rally ended peacefully in the late afternoon, but by evening things had turned ugly. Several thousand angry students and left-wing militants converged on Mendiola Bridge, site of violent clashes 13 years ago, where they encountered a phalanx of riot police. In the ensuing battle, ten people died, about 200 were wounded, and scores were arrested...
...General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte from launching one of its most vivid displays of brutality since Chileans began staging monthly "days of national protest" against the Pinochet regime four months ago. As some 3,000 demonstrators chanted, "He's going to fall, he's going to fall," riot police armed with truncheons, tear gas and water cannons fell upon the demonstrators and beat them savagely. "This is madness, madness!" objected Christian Democratic Party Vice President Patricio Aylwin, only moments before he was arrested by police. When it was over, an estimated 600 people had been taken into custody...
...family can agree on a final resting place. Before masons had cemented the vault closed, several thousand youths returned to the center of Manila, within a block of Malacanang, beating pots and pans and shouting, "Laban!" (fight). They were met by squads of police toting guns and riot shields. As the youths threw rocks and small homemade grenades, the police waded in, eventually dispersing the demonstrators by shooting into the air. At the end of the confrontation, one student had been killed and several police wounded...
...militant. In Denver, strikers carried signs that read MA BELL ABUSES HER KIDS. Violence occasionally erupted. In Brooklyn, strikers tossed eggs at people crossing a picket line and scuffled with police. Three officers suffered cuts and abrasions, and three strikers were arrested for disorderly conduct or inciting to riot. In Atlanta, Picketer B.J. Griffin was hit in the mouth with a BB, apparently fired by a sniper, outside a downtown Southern Bell office. After spending the night in a hospital, Griffin was back on the line the next morning...
...Vacation is not a rambunctious "laff riot" on the order of Animal House--not withstanding newspaper ads depicting Chase in a mock epic pose with Beverly D'Angelo and Christie Brinkley each gripping a leg. It is, rather, a fairly subtle and biting parody of upper-middle class middle America...