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Spike Lee knew just the right thing. While shooting his racially charged movie Do the Right Thing last year, the director realized how crucial it was to find appropriate music for the song that ignites the film's climactic riot scene. "I wanted it to be defiant, I wanted it to be angry, I wanted it to be very rhythmic," says Lee. "I thought right away of Public Enemy...
...left until after elections are held on May 6. Even so, the question of order loomed larger, and the spectacle of the rampage discomfited the government and opposition alike. Said Konrad Weiss, a leader of the Democracy Now movement and an organizer of the protest that preceded the riot: "We found out that radicals in this country can easily misuse a peaceful demonstration...
...explosion was the Securitate. When its officers tried to arrest an ethnic Hungarian clergyman in the western city of Timisoara (pop. 309,000) for his outspoken opposition to the government and to the policies of his own Hungarian Reformed Church, a vigil outside his house erupted into an antiregime riot. Angry mobs smashed shopwindows, burned Ceausescu's books and portraits, and besieged party headquarters and police stations. About 60,000 of the country's 1.7 million Hungarians live in the city, but the rioters included Rumanians as well...
...thaw came in the fall instead. Demonstrations began in mid- November. The first was a legal assembly of students sponsored by the communist-dominated Socialist Union of Youth. But that organization was seething with discontent, and 3,000 of the marchers moved toward Prague's Wenceslas Square. Riot police attacked and beat them. Again there were apprehensive memories of what had happened in Beijing a few months before. The following day tens of thousands of ordinary citizens massed in the square to shout to their temporary rulers "The game is over...
Before Jakes could fashion a response, events exploded. On Friday, Nov. 17, Prague riot police cracked down on student demonstrators. With his authority rapidly crumbling, Jakes launched a last-minute bid to crush the uprising. Advised by Czechoslovakia's military that it would take no part in a violent action against the populace, Jakes turned in desperation to the People's Militia, units composed mostly of factory workers that function in effect as the Communist Party's private army. Beginning Nov. 19, militia units were deployed at factory gates and inside industrial compounds around the country. Care was taken...