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...Riot police swoop down on Warsaw firefighters school and end an eight-day sit-in by 320 cadets demanding academic reforms...
Throughout the Middle Ages, Christmas continued to be a period of riot and debauchery, sometimes lasting several weeks. The French court in 1393 arranged a marriage between two court attendants as an excuse for prolonging the merriment. As described in William S. Walsh's Curiosities of Popular Customs, at the height of the ceremonies, the king and five nobles withdrew and, covering themselves with tar and hemp, re-emerged as dancing bears, tied together with a silken rope...
...page report on the Brixton riots released last week and commissioned by the Conservative government last April while the streets still smoldered, Lord Scarman, 70, a senior judge, concludes, "There was a strong racial element in the disorders. But they were not a race riot. The riots were essentially an outburst of anger and resentment by young black people against the police." Lord Scarman concedes that while "institutional racism" does not exist in Britain, "racial disadvantage and its nasty associate racial discrimination have not yet been eliminated. They poison minds and attitudes. They are, and so long as they remain...
...more prosperous Cuban minority. With the arrival of the Marielitos, blacks feared that they would lose out in the scramble for the few low-skill jobs avail able in the region. Even in Liberty City, the black enclave in North Miami where 18 people died in last year's riot, the Latin influence is apparent. White store owners who abandoned their businesses are being replaced by Latin landlords. "The only things blacks have in Miami are several hundred
...director wisely chose to cast non-professionals, boys whose backgrounds are similar to those of the characters they portray. When he shoots a large event, such as a riot in the prison, he does so with the detachment of a news reporter, following the action as it happens without dramatic flair...