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...more than 1,000 other agencies have adopted Cap-Stun, which is distributed by Luckey Police Products of Fort Lauderdale. Sizes range from the 2-gal. container for riot use to the personal 1/2-oz. canister (price: $9.95). Gardner Whitcomb, 68, started the company with his wife 13 years ago, and has pushed Cap-Stun ever since as a safe substitute for mace. Whitcomb expects sales to quadruple this year, to $1 million...
There are Protestant paramilitary groups, and they have their own youth wings, but there is no occupying force to oppose. Kids in Protestant neighborhoods do not riot or throw stones. Attacks on Catholics have decreased over the years, and the assassinations are carried out by the men. "We've never been able to mobilize the young the way the Catholics have," explains U.D.F. leader Tommy Lyttle. "There never has been that same depth of feeling. Fighting against something is more attractive than defending...
...always conscious of the rules. Simon, 15, a Roman Catholic and a car thief, passionately insists he hates the Provos, hates the cops, but he still knows what side of the civil war he is on. He was in the neighborhood of New Lodge the night of the biggest riot in Belfast last August, throwing rocks alongside the pro-I.R.A. teenagers he normally shuns. He makes a distinction between the thrill of joyriding and that of rioting. "Joyriding is for fun," he says earnestly. "Rioting is because you hate...
...sitcoms also menaced by a crime wave that resembles New York City during a blackout? In this single week, there was an interracial team of angry drug dealers on A Different World, a psychotic killer rudely intruding on an office camping trip on Perfect Strangers, and that laugh riot -- a berserk gun-wielding busboy -- on Sugar and Spice. Even when Suzanne and Julia of Designing Women jetted off on vacation to Japan, probably the world's safest nation, their luggage was promptly stolen in Tokyo's Narita Airport. The thieves, of course, belonged to a criminal class that now exists...
...Ulsan 10,000 riot police battled striking shipyard workers. In Seoul 2,400 police arrested union militants at the headquarters of KBS, the national broadcasting network. Workers at several other companies staged brief sympathy strikes. The latest outbreak of labor unrest was a stiff test of the government's new resolve to deal forcefully with strikers to keep South Korea's faltering economy out of trouble...