Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pantomime scenes worthy of Chaplin and Keaton, sends them tumbling. He takes one demon's weapon and twirls it on one finger, like a gyroscope; he grabs another one and flicks it away with his heel. No one in heaven or earth can touch this hilarious spirit of riot and disorder, and peace comes only when he finds his way home to the Flower-Fruit Mountain. Equally funny is an other bit of pantomime, The Three-Forked Crossroad. In a case of mistaken identities at a country inn, two men simulate a sword fight in the dark. Squinting through...
...hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners in Israel expanded last week into an Arab cause célèbre. More than 300 Arab convicts joined the protest in five jails. A demonstration by prisoners' relatives and sympathizers in East Jerusalem degenerated into a near riot. An Arab civic organization in the city called a half-day sit-in strike in the Al Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem's sacred Muslim shrine. The reason for the agitation: the recent deaths of two Palestinian inmates who were force-fed by Israeli authorities at Nafha prison. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David...
Until now. Sheriffs deputies in Boise, Idaho, armed with a search warrant, burst into television station KBCI'S newsroom two weeks ago. They were looking for video-taped interviews with inmates at the Idaho state penitentiary conducted by Reporter Bob Loy during a prison riot last month. As a dismayed Loy and his colleagues watched helplessly, the police spent 90 min. rummaging through their files and desk drawers before locating the tapes they wanted. Last week KBCI filed a civil complaint against the state and the local prosecutor claiming infringement of their First Amendment rights. Only two months earlier...
...lunch-bucket town with a world-class symphony. A heavily black city with a black-run government, but an economy dependent on white business leaders. A community that prides itself on its race relations, yet a town where the underlying tensions could still cause another riot. And it's a Democratic town holding the Republican National Convention...
This close relationship between white and black leaders began as a community-wide reaction to the race riot of 1967, one of the worst in the nation. A total of 33 blacks and ten whites died in the chaos, and the damage to property amounted to $80 million. Civic leaders formed an interracial group called New Detroit and worked hard to improve race relations, especially between black residents and a white-dominated police force. Three years later, Henry Ford led the formation of Detroit Renaissance, a group made up of chief executives of the major corporations in the city. This...