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...educational process and confine [themselves] to controlling criminal elements." But the authorities are committed to keeping schools open for any students who want to defy the boycott. If SSRC tries intimidation to keep children away, Pretoria is likely to counter with its tough, heavily armed and mostly white riot police. It was the presence of riot police in Soweto last June that enraged student protesters and ultimately led to the shootings. If police turn up again in the township, Soweto may have still more reason for mourning...
...endless ridicule of Madame Mao's "criminality" and "stupidity" has been accompanied by press and radio reports in China's provinces accusing Chiang Ch'ing's supporters of widespread sabotage and inciting to riot. If only a fraction of these charges are true, there may be far greater chaos in China than most analysts have suspected. One broadcast from Shansi declared that followers of the Gang of Four broke into a meeting of the provincial Communist Party secretariat last summer and kidnaped top local leaders. Another broadcast reported that the gang "was the main root causing...
...well-disciplined East Germans had generally been models of quiescence since their futile June 1953 riot in East Berlin, but lately they have become restless. Since the spring, 200,000 of them have sought permission to emigrate, obviously taking seriously the promise of freer travel and reunification of families made by the East Berlin regime when it signed the European security accord at last year's Helsinki Conference. But only 10,275 exit visas have been granted, and most of them to elderly people. Applicants have frequently been fired from their jobs and been subjected to police searches. Some...
Klemmer will be playing this Sunday at 8 p.m., in the Berklee Performance Center. There is an added bonus for the adventurous: Sommerville-Cambridge's favorite funny-man David Misch (no sarcasm, the guy is really a riot) will be on the case with a few pre-performance laughs...
...have a responsibility to break chains, real ones and invisible ones," he once announced at a men's prison. "It must be done in classrooms and in jail cells...everybody can break chains." With a glimmer in his eye, he asserts that at this moment a riot broke out in the prison. "A coincidence maybe, but this is what happens to a storyteller; if you give your life to storytelling, stories start happening around you." As an undergraduate at Harvard, he won a Boylston Prize for his rendering of a speech by Toussaint L'Ouverture, the Haitian leader...