Word: rioting
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...crowd then regrouped in front of the Union to decide on further action. At 3.25 p.m. about 300 demonstrators ran down Commonwealth Ave. to the registrar's office and computer center, which 100 of their number held briefly until riot-equipped police arrived on the scene...
...Politics that cost the mayor the gubernatorial primary. When he announced for Governor more than a year ago, Dan Walker was scarcely known outside Chicago. He had served as vice president and general counsel for Montgomery Ward, and had headed the commission that investigated the rioting during the 1968 Democratic Convention. His report was an even-handed indictment of both demonstrators and police, but it aroused the everlasting enmity of Daley and other law-and-order backers by referring to a "police riot...
...with India. Since then, continued martial law has provided a focus for the historic nationalism of the warlike Pathan and Baluch tribesmen. Russian-supplied automatic rifles are being smuggled across the frontier from Afghanistan, evidently destined for the 6,000-strong Zalme Pakhtoon (Pathan Youth). A bloody riot erupted in Quetta, a city in Baluchistan, after Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto appointed governors for the two provinces from his own party, despite the fact that the National Awami Party holds majorities in the provincial assemblies...
...also an avowed Marxist. Nonetheless, as a pupil of Oxford's distinguished logician AJ. Ayer, he so impressed the Yale philosophy department that he was hired in 1968 to teach courses on revolution and black liberation. And when Yale confronted the threat of a May Day riot two years ago, he worked diligently to help keep the peace...
...came out of Africa with two things: my manhood and my life," he says fiercely. "I don't even belong in prison-and they ask me why I riot...