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...gates and charged the rioters. Vastly outnumbered and exposed to a deadly hail of stones, the police resorted to live ammunition. Said police commissioner Yaacov Terner: "Their lives were in real danger. They had no other way but to respond the way they did." As further proof that the riot was premeditated, Israelis note that Palestinian leader Faisal Husseini -- later jailed for incitement -- was in the crowd...
Within minutes, the police called in a riot squad who brutally beat everyone in sight, including me. The riot police hit me on the back of the neck with the butt of a tear-gas gun. They hit me on the ear with riot sticks swung like baseball bats. They kicked me repeatedly in the ribs...
...ashen-faced Benazir Bhutto sat in the judge's chambers, hundreds of her supporters last week ransacked the courtroom in Lahore, where she was about to go on trial for corruption and abuse of power. Dozens of people, including police, were hurt during the two-hour riot; at one point, Bhutto was pulled into the crowd and collapsed...
...jokes now about his youthful "indiscretions," presenting them as typical of the 1960s. Tom Hayden, he likes to say, was tried for inciting to riot before he entered a state legislature. He claims without proof that the late U.S. Congressman Mickey Leland was a Black Panther. Those people were associated with violence, whereas "my branch of the Klan was nonviolent...
...system of joint ventures, foreign companies would have the right to acquire 100% ownership of Soviet firms. The Soviets are already scrambling for Western trade to alleviate the acute shortages that have brought consumers to the verge of revolt. To ease the tobacco rationing that prompted smokers to riot in almost a dozen cities, Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco announced plans last week to sell 34 billion cigarettes to the Russian Republic...