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Instead, this rage merely seethes and strikes out when provoked in the slightest way. It has proved to be a potent political force. It galvanized hundreds of thousands of black people to march on Washington and incited many to riot when one of their race was treated unjustly. This resentment simply allows the black community to remain steeped in a bad temper about the state of the country. The politics of revenge is easily given over to conspiracy theories and ideas among members of the black community that "the white man" is trying to oppress them...
...Armed Islamic Group (GIA) demanded that President Jacques Chirac cancel a planned meeting with Algerian President Liamine Zeroual next week, suspend all aid to Algiers, and denounce next month's Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris. "He's going to tell him that France not only wants to see democratic elections, but wants to see democracy in every phase of the society. Regarding the terrorism, a problem for the French government is that the terrorists do not speak with...
...QUESTION OUGHT not to be, Will they [African Americans] riot, but rather, What if they don't riot? If the city doesn't burn, will we return to business as usual? Will rogue cops still police our streets? Will the coroner's office still go about its work so sloppily? It's as if we have a problem that these two Americas both know exists--one endures it, the other condones it, nothing gets done on it and now people have the gall to ask what impact this is going to have...
Detroit police in riot gear used pepper spray and tear gas this morning to disperse striking newspaper workers who tried for the second time since Saturday to block delivery trucks carrying the day's combined editions of The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. "Either this is a prelude to a prolonged period of violence, or this is the endgame of the newspaper guild," reports Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "But it really looks like its the latter. As much as this is a pro-labor town, it's even more a pro-law town, and these strikers weren...
...flags were at half staff in San Francisco, and on one, a riot of colors replaced the traditional red, white and blue. It was the first tie-dyed flag to fly in front of city hall. The Bay Area was mourning the loss of its Papa Bear. Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead, had died Wednesday morning at 53, reportedly of heart failure, after three decades of tunes and trips...