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...deputies and escorted under guard to their breakfast, then to the sheriffs bus that took them to the grimy criminal-courts building on Chicago's West Side. Day after day, they sat in silence as witnesses testified about the killing of three guards in the Pontiac state prison riot of 1978. Then they were herded back to the hotel, where the deputies monitored all their phone calls, surveyed them while they took exercise and enforced a TV curfew after...
...cited the persistence of youth unemployment, racial and class tension, activities by "professional riot organizers," the decrepit condition of the inner cities and poor tactics by the British police as causes of the riots...
...ironic that our police made all the mistakes they could in London," Browne said, "when we've been very sophisticated in our riot control in Ulster for 13 years...
...response to the arrests, several hundred Muslim zealots marched on a Coptic cathedral in Cairo, but were repulsed by riot police firing volleys of tear gas. Sadat's political response was equally firm. Late last week, he announced that he would show "no mercy" to Muslim groups involved in the strife and vowed to strip all powers from Pope Shenouda III, 117th Patriarch of the Coptic Church of Egypt...
...more pence is just the start of what would right the grievances of the hundreds of young people who rioted in Liverpool on the eve of the wedding. Not even the shock of the first riot death -David Moore, 22, run down by a police van during what was officially termed "mobile pursuit tactics"-could take the edge off the festivity. Australia's Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Patrick White suggested that the wedding was "a kind of rosy women's weekly romance to lull the more soft-centered among us and distract us from reality." There was, however...