Word: rioting
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...regime, while hardly a dream government, was a lot easier to deal with than Khomeini's. The North Koreans know how to practice discretion and secrecy, while in revolutionary Iran it was hard to find any government to deal with, and every move was a public riot...
...menacing language was backed by the first show of governmental force since the country's labor turmoil erupted last summer. In the southeastern towns of Nowy Sacz and Ustrzyki Dolne, riot police wearing helmets and gas masks ousted militant workers and farmers from government buildings. The demonstrators were demanding the legalization of an independent farmers' union and protesting the harassment of Solidarity organizers. Violence was avoided when the protesters agreed to leave the offices...
Most of the BAARD members said before the arraignment that they expected the charges to be dismissed because Cambridge police neglected to read the Riot Act or warn the protesters that they would be arrested once they stopped circling with picket signs and joined arms...
...They may say they read the Riot Act but they never did so we had no idea what was going on," she added...
Hernandez, in addition to stressing the police's failure to read the Riot Act, said the Cambridge officers "looked like they went there prepared in advance to arrest the demonstrators for something...