Word: toxteth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young as 13, looted businesses, set fire to cars and poured oil on roadways. Reporters who arrived to cover the rioting were beaten. Two white women were raped. Later in the week, rioting broke out in the port city of Liverpool's Toxteth district, also the scene of racial disturbances...
...alien and highly visible population was already entrenched in ghettos across the Continent: in Kreuzberg, along the Wall, in West Berlin; in large areas of Paris, Marseilles, Lyons; in the old quarters of Amsterdam and Utrecht; in the Brussels communes of Saint-Josse, Saint-Gilles and Schaerbeek; in Brixton, Toxteth and two dozen other working-class communities around Britain...
...rejected and useless. . . All these ills of society could bring us to disillusionment and even despair if we were not a people of hope, if we did not have a deep and abiding confidence in the power and mercy of God." During the Liverpool motorcade, the Pope passed through Toxteth, the scene of last summer's ugly riots, which was decorated with photos, flowers and lights. Observed Jeremy Griffin, a student: "All of a sudden we have only one religion in this city today. Even in Liverpool, which is full of unemployed people, they are joining together...
...better education than most members of the street gang he hangs around with in the riot-scarred Liverpool slum of Toxteth. He has three years' experience as a galley boy on merchant vessels and, most important, a declared willingness to work hard. What Steve McGurty, 21, does not have, and is not likely to get, is a job. The merchant marine will not take him because he fell behind in his union dues. The army turned him down because he was fined $37 for being drunk and disorderly after a New Year's party. An architect...
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