Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...path to what she called the "emotional reconstruction" of the city also proved thorny. In short order, Feinstein had to contend with "the White Night Riot," a violent demonstration that pitted gays against police. Then there were conflicts with the police department that led to the firing of popular Police Chief Charles Gain, a citywide teachers' strike and problems with the city's transportation union. Feinstein's cool head, fair but tough negotiating style and politically adroit appointments won her enough favor among the city's diverse ethnic and interest groups to let her be elected...
...more began looting and burning. They destroyed some of the prefabricated dormitory units that had been put into service to relieve overcrowding in cells. Just as that uprising began to subside, 200 convicts in the maximum-security prison at Marquette, on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, started another sympathy riot. They set their vocational school on fire, as well as a garment factory and store. Fourteen inmates and eight guards were injured before gun squads could restore order. Total damage in all three prisons was estimated at roughly $10 million...
...burned as impromptu barricades. As they had in previous weeks, plumes of smoke from Molotov cocktails hung over Belfast. One youngster blew himself up as he tried to plant a crudely made bomb in that city; a Belfast policeman was shot to death. Another youth died during a riot-caused auto crash. The violence spread to the Irish Republic, where a Dublin gang ran amuck along fashionable Dawson Street, hurling rocks and debris through shop windows. Heavy police protection was given to scores of British Members of Parliament...
...Suslov's trip as a gloves-off bid to stem the tide of Polish reform. "They don't send Mikhail Suslov to hand out flowers," said a European diplomatic analyst in Moscow. Added a senior Western diplomat: "I have no doubt that he read them the riot act." If that was in fact Moscow's message, then Suslov was the right mailman. Unsmiling and wraithlike behind dark-rimmed glasses, the 78-year-old party theorist has long been the Kremlin's chief "liquidator of deviationists," as one Western expert put it. He had already delivered...
...luck or fortune form more coherent overall patterns; large historical forces become discernible. But entire societies should not mock luck either. The classic Mayan civilization disappeared so strangely, so precipitously, that some massive stroke of bad luck must have been at work-a sudden plague, say, a viral riot...