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ATLANTA-Cuban inmates fighting deportation torched buildings and reportedly seized 75 hostages in a lunchtime riot at Atlanta's federal prison yesterday, two days after a similar uprising in Louisiana where prisoners continued to hold captives...
...center was surrounded by hundreds of law officers after the riot left 23 people injured Saturday night...
...armored car and busloads of officers in riot gear helped ring the 48-acre Federal Detention Center outside Oakdale, a town of 7,000 in rural south-central Louisiana...
...Calero speech, the audience was even ideologically screened. What could security have feared after Laub had been subdued? Certainly an audience of 350 conservatives and press people was not going to riot. Even the remote possibility that another 20 Laubs were out there should not have daunted the Harvard Police. The only hindrance to the continuation of Calero's speech was Harvard's sqeamishness in the face of physical protest...
...small beach accessible by boat. Despite their significant numbers (about 20% of the city's population of 372,000, compared with upwards of 60% for Hispanics), Miami's blacks get a small part in these books about < urban razzle. The unfortunate exception is the Liberty City riot of 1980, when white-owned stores were set on fire, more than 300 people injured and 18 killed, some dragged from their cars and beaten and burned to death. The violence was sparked by the acquittal of four Dade County policemen, on trial for various charges related to the killing of Arthur McDuffie...