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...week's end Baltimore was on the verge of chaos. Officers from plain-clothes and special divisions and riot-trained state troopers were on the streets, trying to keep looters under control. Negotiations resumed between city officials and Local 44, which was under a court injunction to end the strike and faces fines of $15,000 a day. "We've had problems before. We'll solve this one," insisted Schaefer. He was not prepared to say how it would be done...
...there are some further and all too familiar reasons why leadership has lost much of its psychological accreditation: the assassinations of the 1960s which introduced an unprecedented measure of terror into American politics; the era of riot and protest, offering glimpses of a hitherto unthinkable challenge to the entire social system; the Viet Nam War?a deeply confusing experience to a people schooled in the justice of its wars and the infallibility of its technology. In that strange enterprise, conventional American leadership failed badly and at great expense ?or so the outcome of the war was widely perceived...
...child in the museums and churches round Barcelona. His drawing, too, is in Catalan. It stems from art nouveau, the civic style of turn-of-the-century Barcelona, whose façades and courtyards Architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and his disciples encrusted with an exuberant riot of decorative line. In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage...
...Champs-Elysées on foot, aboard motor bikes and clinging to the tops of cars. They waved the Tricolor and shouted, "Giscard à la barre! [Giscard at the helm!]." Over in the Left Bank student quarter, meanwhile, small knots of young people gathered under the watchful gaze of riot police to shout sullenly, and absurdly, "A victory for fascism!" Such were the sharply distinct reactions to longtime Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's knife-edge victory over Socialist Françoise Mitterrand in France's presidential runoff last week...
THAT SPRING, a visiting lecturer in Transportation named Siegfried M. Breuning offered a course at the Graduate School of Design called Planning 11-3b, "Riot Control." On February 7, 85 members of Afro demanded at the course's first meeting that it be abolished, and Breuning cancelled it. This was a crucial incident because for the first time students actually interferred with the teaching of a course. Before the Planning 11-3b incident, student radicalism and education had gone on independent of one another; now, radicalism took on a new, threatening quality...