Word: rioting
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...smashing windows and tossing petrol bombs. The Irish Republican Army proved unable to protect the Catholics; some sneeringly said the initials I.R.A. really stood for "I Ran Away." A more militant, revolution-bent branch broke off from the official I.R.A., began caching arms, and eventually launched a campaign of riot and terror. The goal of the "provisional," as they styled themselves, was to force an eventual unification of the six counties of Ulster with the 26 counties of the Republic of Ireland...
Wielding long pitchforks and carrying placards inscribed E.E.C.-COUNCIL OF ASSES, they demolished telephone booths, smashed newsstands and shattered store windows, occasionally hopping inside for some quick looting. In skirmishes with some 4,000 Belgian riot police, one farmer was killed by a gas grenade that broke his neck, and more than 140 persons were injured...
...timetable may well depend on how well Lanusse, 52, deals with the economic ills that accompany Argentina's political unrest. In the face of mounting inflation, Lanusse repealed a government decree that kept a ceiling of 19% on wage increases. He had little choice; union leaders in riot-plagued Cordoba had promised more violence unless the wage ceiling was abolished...
...days, and they are indeed brutal. Scanlan's inability to get a special issue on guerrilla war published anywhere in the U. S. was such an abridgement. At the Chicago Convention, when Mayor Daley turned off the microphone of the Wisconsin delegation, which was trying to protest the police riot, that was a curtailment of free speech. When Nathan Pusey fired Faculty members for the "crime" of Communism, that too was suppression of free speech...
What did happen last Friday night is best described as a transgression of the laws of protocol and order. People shouted and screamed. They reacted clamorously to what was going on: if there can be any charge, it is disorderly conduct, or riot, or creating a public nuisance; denying freedom of speech simply does not describe what happened...