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...demonstrations were mild compared with the "White Night Riot," in which 124 were injured when White was convicted only of voluntary manslaughter in 1979. The jury accepted what came to be known as the "Twinkies defense...
After a bloody food riot, the President cancels a price hike
While gunfire sounded, police and army troops in Jeeps and armored personnel carriers fanned out through the city to quell the "bread riot." The show of force finally brought an uneasy calm, but only after more than 50 demonstrators and bystanders were killed. Then, in a dramatic five-minute radio and television broadcast, Bourguiba announced that he was reversing the price hike. The cost of bread would drop immediately from 18? to 8?, he declared, while previous increases for such staples as pasta and flour would be reduced as well. "We are going back to where we were," he said...
...students began to riot at college campuses across the country in 1969, Harvard officials believed it couldn't happen here...
...surprised that the mayor of Tripoli did not have Arafat arrested for vagrancy, trespassing, vandalism, inciting a riot, committing mayhem and destroying public property...