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...crowd quickly scattered, although elements of it regrouped farther west and began marching down Quincy St. toward Harvard Square, declaring that their intention was to "trash Harvard Trust and other banks." But just as they reached Mass Ave, several Cambridge police cars and a bus filled with over 50 riot-equipped police pulled into the intersection and the 200 marchers were split in half...
...action, its organizers expected to attract between 3000 and 5000 people. But as the President flew off to Moscow, the action lost much of its relevance. Only about 1000 people showed up as the march timetables went awry and its leadership quarreled divisively. After sparring for several hours with riot-equipped police in front of the building, the marchers surged toward the police lines and 200 were carted away. The action was viewed as a failure by almost everyone involved...
...have had deliberate racial overtones that are far from flattering to whites; the oppression of the apes has been equated with the denial of civil rights to U.S. blacks. In Conquest, the racial parallel will be explicit. The climactic uprising, says Dehn. "is a little bit like the Watts riot...
...revolutionaries' lives. Malcolm's life in prison is represented with newsreel scenes of the police brutality that is all too familiar to blacks in prisons and in ghettos. They are bloody scenes, ugly scenes, scenes like the one in which a white state trooper tells his men before a riot. "If we shoot, we shoot to kill...
What happens when student mobs riot for university reform? These days, the cops are usually called in, heads are broken, and the riot leaders are jailed. There was a somewhat different ending last week to a student uprising in the Malagasy Republic-the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar and its dependencies. The youthful rebels not only got the promise of reform, but also brought down the government...