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When the last of the mob had dispersed, the policeman returned to the station to file the complaint. The Feeney squad sat for the rest of the afternoon in the Center, staring out of the large plate glass windows...
...state, Police Sergeant Rubiko, who was in charge of the force in the Square the night of the demonstration, what was to prove a long and heated questioning got under way. Viola first had Rubiko, tell his story of the incident. The Sergeant pointed out the location of the "mob" on a large map of the Square posted near the witness stand. In a testimony constantly broken into by the defending lawyers who claimed it wasn't germane in the cases of their clients, he related how the crowd "was making a great deal of noise," how he "was spat...
...bursting out faster than ever. Three thousand students at the University of Miami battered down a heavy wire fence, threw tomatoes and oranges at the cops, invaded ten women's dormitories and got away with armloads of lingerie. Shrieked the girls: "Come on up!" In upper Manhattan, a mob of Columbia University students filled the street below Barnard College dormitories, milled about for hours while the girls waved panties from their windows...
...leader, said the voice. He was deathly sick, lying on a bed of pain, and he wanted to be sure the papers reported it. The next afternoon the phones rang again. At that very moment Cairo lay enshrouded in smoke and echoing to sirens as a feverish anti-foreign mob, directed by jeep-borne leaders on a precise timetable, fired $300 million worth of foreign property and took some 60 lives (TIME, Feb. 11). It was Ahmed again. He was still in bed, terribly sick, and wasn't it awful what was happening...
...Cairo cops hustled Ahmed,' a stocky man with bushy eyebrows and an arrogant stance, into the prisoner's dock in Egypt's Supreme Military Court, and he was put on trial for his life. The charge: Hussein, careering around in a black Citroen, had directed the mob in "burning, sabotaging, looting and destroying...