Word: rioting
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...Israeli army, already under fire for its conduct, found itself embroiled in another controversy over a ghastly incident in the West Bank village of Salim. There, army officials said last week, Israeli soldiers forced four suspected riot leaders to lie on the ground last Feb. 5 and ordered an army bulldozer driver to push a mound of earth over them. Miraculously, the victims were dug out alive by villagers after the soldiers left. Army officials ; announced that two soldiers had been arrested for allegedly participating in the incident...
...weeks ago, army recruiters dragged some 300 teenagers from their homes, according to eyewitness accounts, handcuffed them and, after checking their identities, impressed about 50 into the army. Over the next three nights, relatives and friends of the young men torched official cars, set bonfires and clashed with riot police. Said a local army veteran who was maimed fighting the contras: "I'll fight for my mother but not for the Sandinista front...
...partying that has kept Harvard alive in the past was punctuated by a little bureaucratization, party lists, reserving rooms and the occasional tutorial intervention. But there was still no need to call the cavalry and break up a group of students with all the force of a riot squad...
Last October, a race riot developed at the school following the 1986 World Series between the New York Mets and the Boston...
...easily put the realities of life into a simple set of orders. The situation created during the control of a violent riot is much more complicated than it might seem," Barak said...