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...freedom-loving or newly emerged peoples, the demo is actually a carefully prepared propaganda device, and sometimes a safety valve through which shaky potentates can let off the steam of an uneasy citizenry. As Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk said after a mob of students and agitators tore up the U.S. and British embassies in Phnompenh last spring: "The riots were inexcusable but comprehensible. They translated the legitimate exasperation of Cambodian youth before the repeated humiliations inflicted on their country by the Anglo-Saxon powers." Of course the riots were comprehensible. Sihanouk had organized them...
...weeks a fun-loving mob-egged on by the nation's powerful Communist Party-ravaged a United States Information Service library, ostensibly in protest against the joint U.S.-Belgian rescue mission in the Congo. In Surabaya more than 1,000 jolly Javanese burst into the U.S. Cultural Center, tore down the American flag, smashed furniture, ripped up many of the library's expensive technical and scientific books, and burned it all in a roaring, heartwarming bonfire. Three days earlier, another carefully organized mob had looted the USIS library in Djakarta, destroying a quarter of the books on hand...
Knife in hand, he finds himself standing over the mother's bed, but he cannot kill her in her sleep. When she wakes, shrieking, he jumps on her and they fight, tearing one another's clothes until "her mouth found my nipple, my left nipple, and tore it away. That was the moment I sank the blade into her throat . . . Her blood spurted all over my face. It was warm as a soft belly and tasted like the blood of a lamb...
...Gordon Walker, who was unseated in last month's general election, could not take part in the debate (he will probably be re-elected from a safe Labor constituency by year's end). Stung by chuckles from the Opposition benches, Wilson looked up from his notes and tore into a vitriolic attack on his predecessor, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, as well as on Peter Griffiths, the Tory candidate who defeated Gordon Walker at Smethwick, a Midlands industrial suburb that has colored immigrants...
...knows this better than Johnson, but he is taking no chances, and last week he was campaigning as though he actually feared defeat. He whirled through five New England states on a prop-stopping speaking trip, and the wild crowds nearly tore him apart. Everywhere he went, he halted his motorcade, made impromptu speeches through a hand-held bullhorn, bounded out of his car to press the outstretched hands of crushing mobs. At Providence, R.I., he embraced ex-Senator Theodore Francis Green, now 97, invited him to spend the night at the White House for the inauguration...