Word: rioting
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Among the items hurled at California Governor Pete Wilson last week were oranges (he caught one and threw it back), eggs and ugly epithets. "Liar! Coward! Shame! Shame!" cried the protesters at Stanford, where Wilson was delivering a speech marking the university's centennial. Surrounded by police in riot gear, he plunged through a 10-minute address, unheard by much of the audience of 4,000 over the catcalls of 300 protesters from gay-rights groups like Queer Nation and ACT UP. Over the clamor, Wilson offered the observation that "this is neither the time nor the place for fascist...
...burglar who walked in through the front door. Of SCOTLAND YARD, no less. Embarrassed officials in London acknowledged last week that a young woman with a history of mental illness had wandered into the Yard's headquarters and ascended to the seventh floor, where a set of riot gear, including helmet and body armor, caught her eye. She liked the rig so much that she wore it home. Her horrified relatives returned the stolen gear to the bobbies, who vowed to review security procedures...
...July 2 at a concert not far from St. Louis, Rose got into a fight with a camera-toting biker (cameras are banned at Guns concerts) and ended up storming off the stage, to the dismay of 20,000 fans. In the ensuing riot, 16 people were arrested, 60 were injured, and $200,000 in property damage was sustained...
Inflation runs riot, sapping an already weakened economy; people go cold and hungry. A weak democratic government fails to maintain order, and is vilified by nationalists furious at the country's fall from world power to beggary. An attempted coup designed to install a dictatorship collapses, and its leaders are tried for treason. But after a final economic breakdown marked by mass unemployment, fascists come to power with wide popular support and institute a ruthless totalitarianism...
...bleak housing estates of northeastern England, where unemployment runs as high as 40%, the closing days of summer produced an outbreak of "hotting" -- the teenage sport of racing stolen cars. Last week, during four nights of disturbances, one full-scale riot raged for five hours on an estate in Newcastle-upon-Tyne that is locally known as "the Bronx." Hundreds of youngsters fire-bombed buildings, wrecked and looted shops and stoned the police...