Word: rioting
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...single out those two, when hundreds of others were involved, they ask? The answer is simple: Because the Spartacists announced they would disrupt and they did disrupt. They singled themselves out. A police-man breaking up a riot may not be able to arrest all the rioters, but if someone runs up to the policeman with signs proclaiming that he or she will riot, does the policeman say, wait a minute, I have others to arrest? Joseph Kare
...Moroccan businessmen chatted and soaked up the warm winter sun at the outdoor cafés, and young women scurried across the capital's Place des Alaouites to their mid-morning appointments. At a major intersection a few yards away were contingents of police outfitted with full riot gear and swinging batons at their sides. Pointing to other men in civilian clothes lingering near by, a taxi driver mused aloud, "Undercover officers. They've been here since Saturday, following 'the Troubles...
Machel looks west-and south We are Marxists, but riot in the religious sense of the word," an adviser to Mozambique's President conceded last year. That may be putting it mildly. Last October, during a fence-mending 18-day tour of Western Europe, President Samora Machel, 50, was presented with a medal from Queen Elizabeth, and persuaded the British government to waive his country's payment of a $30 million debt. In Portugal, Mozambique's longtime colonial master and Machel's bitter foe during a ten-year struggle for independence, the former guerrilla commander declared...
...Jacksonville's Ribault Senior High, Principal Walter Harris recalls that in the early '70s "any day you didn't have a racial riot was a success." Harris gained control of the school by closing the campus to outsiders and instituting a dress code for both students and teachers. Most important, he raised the school's academic standards. Says Harris: "Once students found they could improve academically, they improved their self-concept and discipline...
...leaving two dead and 34 injured. Together with two recent explosions in fashionable Parisian restaurants, both blasts were apparently designed to protest the French role in the Middle East quagmire. Last week, as the entire country shook from the reverberations, several alarms were sounded, railway stations were evacuated, and riot policemen began patrolling high-speed trains...