Word: rioting
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...second night of the conference for example a small riot broke out in the Mess Hall at dinner, as the Cadets staged a peprally of sorts to get psyched for the coming Syracuse game. Food was thrown, glasses were smashed, the place turned into shambles. West Point authorities condone such actions, Brigadier General Phillip Feir, Commandant of Cadets, explains. "The sprit these incidents build its worth the cost of the food and broken silverware...
...Hebert, a hard-line traditionalist, is opening hearings this week in the House Armed Services Committee on the Navy's lack of discipline. And the Kitty Hawk returns this week to San Diego, where its officers will continue with courts-martial against the blacks involved in the October riot...
...time, it looked like nothing more serious than a bit of virulent '60s nostalgia. All the basic props were there at Louisiana's predominantly black Southern University: the band of students occupying the administration building, the crowd milling about on the lawn, the stolid cops in riot gear wielding nightsticks and absorbing epithets. Right on cue a miasma of tear gas blanketed the tableau, screams pierced the air and the players scattered. When the smoke cleared, however, the scene was not another Berkeley or Harvard, but was somewhat more reminiscent of Kent State or Jackson State. Lying dead...
...pumped some $1.5 billion into state and local law-enforcement agencies, although much of it has gone for riot-control gear and other unproductive frills. Far more effective has been the Administration's drive against organized crime. This is expected to continue, as is a new emphasis on antitrust prosecutions, including jail terms for corporate price fixers, and new attention to such white-collar criminals as stock manipulators, tax dodgers and perpetrators of consumer frauds...
Police were armed with hand grenade simulators, in addition to a variety of shotguns and riot guns, Phillips said last night...