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...power base secure, T.R. kicked off a momentous new-century campaign to save his countrymen from "government by plutocracy or by mob." His first milestone breakthroughs: 1) first successful antitrust suit brought by an American President to dissolve a corporate monopoly-the Northern Securities Co.-to safeguard right of free competition; 2) first mediation between management and labor by an American President-in the great anthracite coal strike-to safeguard the public welfare, including the rights of labor. But T.R., conservative, added: "I wish the labor people absolutely to understand that I set my face like flint against violence...
...with Turkey's Premier Menderes and Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, that Britain had accepted partition of Cyprus (between Greeks and Turks) as a solution for the island's troubles. Minutes later, the rumor was proved false. The peaceful procession was abruptly transformed into an angry, howling mob. The "Black Turks" -Cyprus' special police trained to brutal efficiency in breaking up riots-were unwilling to fight their own people; the brunt fell on British troops and police. Flinging Coke bottles and stones, the mob stormed down narrow Kyrenia Street to the house of the Turkish Cypriot leader...
Dancing Dervishes. Just when the mob seemed ready to disperse, a British officer chose to order a soldier-driver to move his Land Rover out of the jammed street. The soldier stepped on the foot throttle, knocking people down right and left, and bouncing his heavy vehicle over the bodies of an old man and woman. Howling with rage, the crowd broke through the police lines and overturned Land Rovers and trucks. At a Ford agency garage near the Mosque of the Dancing Dervishes, flaming gasoline-soaked rags were flung among the brand-new cars, and soon the building rocked...
Fury Spent. From the barracks, the mob turned on foreign embassies in which members of the ousted dictator's administration had sought asylum. They milled outside the Dominican embassy shouting insults at Pérez Jiménez' friend, ousted Argentine Dictator. Juan PeroÓn. They stormed the Nicaraguan embassy, found a Security Police official and shot him. After a day and night of looting, burning and hunting down cops, the mob's blood rage began subsiding. Larrazabal's emergency junta helped satisfy the rioters by abolishing the Security Police, arresting 196 of its chief...
Yelling, shouting and shooting at nothing in particular, the Indians struck their cheerful terror until a plain-clothes deputy tossed a tear-gas bomb into the mob; then braves and Klansmen alike scattered. Soon state troopers sped into the field and disarmed them all. Happily the Lumbees jogged home, certain that the race-baiting bunch of newcomers to American soil would not mess around much more with Americans of a different brand...