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...other hordes at safe distance, billy-twirling cops patrolled the approaches to the U.N., the streets and buildings where the guests made their headquarters, the avenues they traveled. Busloads of reserve police stationed themselves at strategic points and waited for alarms. Mounted cops assembled to ward off any mob attacks. Scores of plainclothesmen from the Red countries as well as the U.S. stalked in doorways, on rooftops, bridges and overpasses, while fleets of escorting motorcycles and patrol cars shot up and down the streets with sirens wailing...
...money, and then leave without sharing it." A drunken woman hurled a rock that gashed one of Carolina's two sons. Rocks struck Daughter Vera Eunice. As curses and the hail of stones grew, Carolina pounded on the hood, leaped aboard, and the driver roared through the mob. The favela-dwellers gave chase, brandishing clubs and rotten vegetables until the truck neared a police station. Then they fell away, and headed home...
...ordinary duty, the G.I.s had come off one mission of mercy-flying supplies to Chilean earthquake victims-only to be assigned to another: delivering men and materiel into the Congo on U.N. duty. No sooner had they debarked in Stanleyville than they were pummeled and beaten by a howling mob...
...climax, Castro held up a copy of the 1952 Cuba-U.S. Mutual Defense Treaty. He roared that "by the sovereign will of the Cuban people, this treaty is annulled." Then, while the mob bawled its approval, he tore it up. For good measure he ripped in two a copy of the week-old Costa Rican declaration. From Russia came support. Said Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The Soviet people are enthusiastic about the courageous struggle the Cuban peopie are waging...
...first air raids of the Spanish Civil War. That very morning Bogarde had left the church because its hierarchy sympathized with Francisco Franco's rebels. But after the raid, in the kind of irony that cuts like a rubber dagger, he is hunted down by a mob of enraged Loyalists who have convinced themselves that the city's priests signaled enemy planes from the cathedral tower. (The Loyalists are represented as Communistic priest-murderers, and Franco's troops as mostly good joes...