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Just last Thursday, for example, a riot broke out in downtown Cape Town. A group of Black women gathered to sing songs of protest against the presence of security police in Black townships. It was the lunch hour and many people, white and Black, gathered around. The police moved in first with water cannons and then with dogs, whips and rubber truncheons. At first they attacked only Blacks; later they went after anyone standing in a group, Black or white. Police knocked over and beat cameramen on the scene. Blacks fought back. Some turned cars on their sides to make...
Mubarak, however, declared that he was still too upset to read the letter. As protests continued in the streets of Cairo, always under close supervision by riot police armed with tear gas and nightsticks, the Egyptian President demanded an apology from the U.S. for "all Egyptians." That prompted President Reagan's "Never" response, raising the public dimension of the crisis another notch. But already U.S. diplomats in Cairo were suspecting that Mubarak's outrage, while honest enough, was also part of a calculated effort to let the volatile Egyptian populace blow off steam over the EgyptAir incident. In the days...
...this wasn't another boffo prank by that laugh riot of a magazine, the Harvard Lampoon. The fake calendar was the work of the newest group of pranksters to hit Harvard with a punch line, the K-School Lampoon...
...there the woman collapsed, and later died on the way to the hospital. Her family contended that she suffered a heart attack after officers pushed her to the floor. A day after word of her death spread through the neighborhood, hundreds of youths gathered in the streets and attacked riot squads that had been sent to the area. The police, who were carrying only plastic shields, were showered with flaming gasoline bombs. Four teenage boys, three black and one white, were arrested later in the week in connection with the policeman's death. The oldest was 15, the youngest...
...firearms. One policeman in 10 is now authorized to carry a gun; in London, the ratio is 1 in 5. The shootings have hardened resentment among blacks who accuse the mostly white police force of insensitivity and racism. That lingering bitterness was evident the day after the Tottenham riot. Bernie Grant, a black Marxist who heads the local borough council, not only refused to condemn the killing of the officer but declared that the police had received "a bloody good hiding." The remark outraged much of the country. But it was especially embarrassing for Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition...