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Last week's violence was set off by a tragic accident and the harsh action of a weak government. When a small delivery truck backfired at a traffic light in Belfast, a nervous British sentry apparently mistook the sound for a sniper's shot and gunned down the driver, a Catholic father of six. Catholic passions quickly rose to the flash point, and Protestant right-wingers demanded that British troops "take the gloves...
...What led to the bitter confrontation was a brutal incident 15 months ago. Alleging that there had been a sniper's shot in a black neighborhood, some 25 cops broke into one house without a warrant, saying that they were looking for guns. A two-year-old girl was knocked to the floor. Her protesting father was beaten, then thrown down a flight of stairs. His three-months-pregnant wife was also knocked down and stomped. A three-month-old girl was Maced in the eyes and left with a permanent need for glasses...
When the death toll out in Yuba City, California, surpassed the magic number 16 (held by sniper Charles Whitman, Austin, Texas) two weeks ago, some Harvard seniors were so thrilled they nearly threw a party. This was an event! If the toll passes 30, there may be fireworks in the Square...
...Uneasy, he came back next day with the deputies, who soon found the first dead man. What followed turned into a grisly mess that outranks the more gruesome mass murders of the recent American past: the 1966 killing of 16 by Charles Whitman, the University of Texas tower sniper; the gunning down of 13 people in Camden, N.J., by berserk Howard Unruh in 1949; the murder of eight student nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck five years ago. The Yuba City murders, like the 1969 Sharon Tate killings, had a special dimension of monstrosity. The murders were apparently executed systematically...
Robert Dole of Kansas, was not even Richard Nixon's second choice for G.O.P. national chairman. But he ingratiated himself with the White House as an effective sniper, and since his appointment this January, the upstart Senate freshman has earned a reputation as the Administration's No. 1 gunslinger. In a season when the President has chosen to lower his partisan profile, Dole has stepped into the breach as party defender and cheerleader, spraying shot and zapping Democrats with Agnewesque zeal...