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...platoons of troops took position outside Parliament, where the legislators were debating. Carrying no weapons, the throng demonstrated peacefully before Caledon Square police station, where a local batch of leaders had been locked up. Then, to the relief of the platoons of police troops standing ready to fire, the mob disappeared. But police radios crackled with news that the same thing was occurring in other towns on the cape-in Somerset West, at the coastal resort of Hermanus...
...first, everything was relatively quiet, too, at the Sharpeville police station, 28 miles southwest of Johannesburg-but Sharpeville was soon to become a headline name the world over. Twenty police, nervously eying a growing mob of 20,000 Africans demanding to be arrested, barricaded themselves behind a 4-ft. wire-mesh fence surrounding the police station. The crowd's mood was ugly, and 130 police reinforcements, supported by four Saracen armored cars, were rushed in. Sabre jets and Harvard Trainers zoomed within a hundred feet of the ground, buzzing the crowd in an attempt to scatter it. The Africans...
...years after federal troops were sent into Little Rock to quell rioters, another racist mob marched down Little Rock's 14th Street bent on creating new troubles for tempest-tossed school authorities and the Negro children who were again trying to enter Central High School. This riot never came off, and one of the main reasons was the presence of a big (6 ft. 2½ in., 213 Ibs.) cop named Eugene Smith (TIME. Aug. 24). Police Chief Smith and his squads were ready for the mob leaders, picked them out one by one and sent them...
...501st Signature. One thing they could not change was the fact that Khrushchev was coming to Paris just as the Fifth Republic unheroically survived its most serious parliamentary crisis to date. The issue was the country's farm problem, which last month burst out in ugly mob rioting at Amiens and last week produced a crisis in the National Assembly that would have toppled a government in Fourth Republic days, before De Gaulle came back to power...
...many areas, and in the normally peaceful town of Masan voting was still in progress when a disgruntled crowd raised the cry, "Dirty polls!" It was like a spark in dry straw. Suddenly, 200 angry citizens raced to a police station, set it afire, fled with captured weapons. Another mob, 2,500 strong, gathered before the town hall, stoned firemen, who vainly attempted to hook up their hoses to fight back. After tear gas failed, scores of police arrived from nearby Pusan. One lowered his carbine and fired into the screaming crowd, a signal that led other cops...