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...confrontation of blacks v. cops, vintage Watts and Newark. At its height, bands of angry blacks roamed the ghetto streets, smashing, burning and looting. Flames from some 50 fires cast an orange glow in the night sky, while the crackle of gunfire, the screams of police and fire sirens tore the air. During the night, six blacks died from gunshot wounds; all of them had been hit in the back. Scores more were injured, three critically, and hundreds were arrested. The first race riot of the '70s had come to Augusta...
...year separation to a student who was in the seminar room, "shouted loudly," grabbed the statement which Bowie read to the demonstrators informing them of a rights violation, tore it up, and spilled a glass of water on a member of the meeting...
...tore open his shirt and showed the girls Rosy on his chest...
Kazin, his advisor, and three designated observers entered the hearing, where one of the group allegedly tore up photographic evidence and statements by University officials relating to the disturbance, and then left the building...
...heavy-artillery pieces poured fire into suspected enemy positions. The ground trembled as flights of as many as 35 huge B-52s roared over the sanctuaries again and again, dumping more than 2,000,000 Ibs. of bombs. The columns of South Vietnamese tanks and armored cars that tore into the Parrot's Beak suggested the lumbering search-and-destroy operations that proved of questionable value in the jungles of Viet Nam. But on the dry plains of Cambodia, where long plumes of dust rose behind the speeding armor, conditions were ideal...