Word: rioting
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...most controversial documents in recent U.S. history. She burned an 18-page document released by a special Ohio grand jury last year that absolved the National Guard of any responsibility in the slaying of four Kent State students. The grand jury indicted 24 youths and one professor on state riot charges...
...Kennedy campaign, the dark and light sides shimmer together in a radical instability. Robert's headlong drive through the 1968 primaries often threatened to turn into something like the riot at Rudolph Valentino's funeral. Even now, in his noncampaign, Ted Kennedy knows what superstar's confusions he can cause. Oregon's Republican Senator Robert Packwood remembers a trip he took with Ted to some hospitals and health centers in Chicago and Cleveland as part of their work for the Senate health subcommittee of which Kennedy is chairman...
...leaders began to charge that State Mutual was interested in profit rather than public service, since the company stood to make an 8.2% return on its investment. That cry was echoed by radical college students who marched on company headquarters, forcing the Worcester police department to call out its riot squad...
Bloustein emerged from the gymnasium accompanied by a police escort. Many of the students, restricted by New Brunswick police in riot gear, yelled "Sieg Heil" as he left the ceremony...
...many French wines and champagnes that Brezhnev had to forgo another ceremonial dinner next evening. Security was heavy. Potential troublemakers were rounded up and sent aboard a chartered jet for a paid vacation in Corsica to last the duration of Brezhnev's stay. Ten thousand flics and riot police, the largest concentration since the days of Algerian upheaval, were assigned to protect Brezhnev wherever he moved...