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...Strayer cried. In a Winnebago outside, GOP operatives orchestrated the ranks up to the 19th floor, hoping to halt the tally of the largest potential lode of Gore votes. Republicans, not usually known for takin' it to the streets, got what they wanted. Just two hours after a near riot outside the counting room, the Miami-Dade canvassing board voted to shut down the count. Yet the way the Republicans went after it, by intimidating the three-member board or by providing the excuse it was looking for, gave Americans the first TV view of strong-arm tactics in what...
...deadlock, Congress appointed an electoral commission. By an 8-to-7 party-line vote, the commission gave all the disputed votes to Hayes. This represented a supreme election swindle, and there was a season of great bitterness. As a final noble gesture, though, Tilden asked his supporters not to riot outside the Capitol...
...deadlock, Congress appointed an electoral commission. By an 8-to-7 party-line vote, the commission gave all the disputed votes to Hayes. This represented a supreme election swindle, and there was a season of great bitterness. As a final noble gesture, though, Tilden asked his supporters not to riot outside the Capitol...
...Land has been airing a lot of old Angels episodes. I hadn't seen one since childhood. So the other day I tuned in, curious to know whether my liberation memories would match up with the actual product, especially now that I have de Beauvoir and Ferraro and riot grrl under my belt. The episode was called Target: Angels. Kelly (Jaclyn Smith), Sabrina (Kate Jackson) and Jill (Farrah Fawcett) are being shot at by an enemy of Charlie's. I am delighted to report that I could see what I once saw. Jill coaches a girls' basketball team; Kelly breaks...
...undercover squads are dramatically effective. In the second week of the current violence, rioters pelted police with stones at Jerusalem's Gate of the Tribes, which leads to the Temple Mount, after Friday prayers. A moustarabine unit of 10 officers, their faces shrouded by kaffiyehs, joined in the rioting with cries of "Allahu akbar!" (God is most great). At a signal, they threw percussion grenades and nabbed the leaders of the riot...