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Savagery replaced harmony with nightmarish suddenness. One evening white Angelenos had nothing to worry about but the humidity. The next - and for four nights after that - marauding mobs in the Negro suburb of Watts pil laged, burned and killed, while 500 po licemen and 5,000 National Guardsmen struggled vainly to contain their fury. Hour after hour, the toll mounted: 27 dead at week's end, nearly 600 injured, 1,700 arrested, property damage well over $100 million. Minute by minute, police radios logged a Wellsian cata logue of carnage: "Manchester and Broadway, a mob of 1,000 . . . Shots...
Hoping to disperse the rioters, Park ordered all colleges and universities closed until July 4, which is one day before the regular summer holiday begins. Then, as an appeasing gesture, Park reluctantly fired his top collaborator: Kim Chong Pil, Park's nephew by marriage and head of Park's Democratic-Republican Party. Kim is hated by the students because of the ruthless way he once ran Park's Central Intelligence Agency and because he has been instrumental in the controversial negotiations with Japan. Kim is fond of saying, "I am nothing but a shadow of the President...
...said an M.R.R. spokesman in Miami, Artime and a "strong force of commandos" had gone ashore at Puerto Pilón, 145 miles from Guantanamo on Cuba's southern coast...
...second force of guerrillas from the nearby Sierra Maestra mountains, the exiles had captured the town and held it for three hours against Castro's militia, during that time declaring it a "free territory of Cuba." They then blew up the Cabo Cruz sugar mill and disappeared. Puerto Pilón, the exiles noted with satisfaction, was only a few miles from the spot where Castro himself originally landed in 1956, and the Sierra Maestra was his sanctuary in the early stages of the revolution...
...things turned out." In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year-old Harold Knowles, one of three Negroes to start classes at Leon High School, said: "I expected some friction, but nothing hap pened." In Savannah, Ga., 25 Negroes entered previously all-white public and parochial high schools, and a white pu pil said later: "We'll be all right if everybody will just leave us alone." In Cambridge, Md., summer-long scene of civil rights strife, 20 Negroes were peaceably admitted to white schools...