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...buildings, the crowd howled, "Biermann, Biermann"-referring to Poet-Balladeer Wolf Biermann, one of many dissident East German artists and intellectuals who have been forced into exile (TIME, Oct. 3). More menacingly, the rioters began to chant, "Russians out! Russians out!" East German officials were unable to downplay the riot, which was seen by some Western diplomats. Eyewitnesses reported that one policeman was stabbed to death and another killed when rioters beat him on the head with a beer crate during the three-hour melee. At least 200 young people were injured, and 700 others were held by police...
...fictionalized biography of John P. Altgeld, a poor Illinois farm boy who became governor of his state in the 1890s. Against a storm of political pressure, Altgeld pardoned three anarchists who had been wrongly convicted of murder in 1886 during the public hysteria that followed Chicago's Haymarket Riot. Lavette, Paine and Altgeld all start out poor, and all have to battle the stigma of being outsiders...
Armed with their warrant, the Palo Alto police entered the Daily office and searched desks, reporters' notes and negatives. They found no photographs of the riot...
...Stanford Daily had covered a riot outside a local hospital, and the Palo alto police department--believing that the Daily staff had taken photographs of the disturbance--requested the pictures to help identify the rioters...
Boston Rumblings are heard in South Boston, but no one predicts a return of riot police or tear gas. A citywide Parent Advisory Council established by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. has done much to defuse race tension. Another worry is low test scores. The national median on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 429 on the verbal exam, 471 for math. Boston's white students are scoring 445 on the verbal and 464 on the math, blacks 331 on verbal, 339 on math...