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...freedom!" thousands of students, many of them carrying clubs, surged through downtown Athens, where they started fires and tied up traffic. Some used appropriated buses as barricades, from which they peppered police with fruit and stones. In Constitution Square, students were met by a massive force of truncheon-swinging riot police and clouds of tear gas. In scenes that to some observers seemed like a re-enactment of the Costa-Gavras film Z, some police kicked and bludgeoned the demonstrators, while others fired machine guns into the air to scatter the student mobs...
...last week the number of students flooding into Bangkok had swelled to several hundred thousand. They gathered in front of the Parliament building where police attacked them with tear gas, and the riot was on. Vehicles and government buildings were burned, including the offices of Thanom's son, Colonel Narong Kittikachorn, who was suspected by many students of maneuvering to be Thailand's next Prime Minister. I watched the modern office building that houses the national lottery being put to the torch. Explained one student: "It's good that we burn the lottery, because it only robs...
Argentina today is more tense, more lawless than it was when Perón was biding his time in exile in Madrid. Almost daily the country is racked by a new assassination, kidnaping, riot or strike. Since the Perón regime began with a hand-picked surrogate last May, more than 15 leading members of Perón's own Justicialist Party have been brutally murdered. Only last month José Rucci, one of Perón's closest associates and the head of the giant 3.1 million-member General Confederation of Labor, was riddled with...
...year, says Sack, without ever killing a Communist. Robert Melvin is a black Viet veteran now totally committed to working his way up the executive ladder at a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Another black, Vantee Thompson, came home from search-and-destroy missions to find himself on riot-control duty in Baltimore, his own people becoming as hard to understand as the Viet Cong...
...Shane's reporting about the character of certain demonstrations at Boston University last spring is completely off base. There was never a situation in which tactical police were in full riot gear on campus waiting for demonstrators to arrive. The Boston Tactical Police were called to the campus last May 1, 1973, by an official of the Boston police who was on campus at the invitation of the University. This Boston Police official did not call the tactical police until it was necessary to do so. Mr. Shane does not point out that despite the nastiness of the crowd...