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...student, who was not a member of the Lampoon, climbed on top of a bus shouting obscene four-letter words. The same student later tore a sign off one of the buses and got in a first-fight with a bystander. As University police took him into custody, a mob surrounded the car chanting at the police...
...political rallies. His followers rioted in Lima; in one violent demonstration 20 were injured, 100 arrested. After three days on the island, Belaúnde decided to make a move. While guards were looking the other way during an exercise period, he raced down to the shore, tore off his shoes and plunged into the chill Pacific, crying dramatically: "I have chosen freedom!"-only to have a nearby yachtsman return him to prison. All through the next week, Acción Popular demonstrations continued, until the government let him go just to be rid of him. Returning to the mainland...
...moved, the court gave the defendants suspended eight-day sentences and $200 fines. Not satisfied, France's top law journals tore the decision apart. Calling the law "most imprecise," Strasbourg University Law Professor Alfred Rieg said that it fails to require crucial proof that "an act has been capable of causing a scandal." At this stage of changing mores, he added, "one cannot seriously claim that the nudity of a feminine bosom on a beach is of a nature to offend the decency of those...
...point-blank range. "There was what sounded like an explosion," said a dazed woman. "I looked at Malcolm, and there was blood running out of his goatee." Men and women threw themselves to the floor as the gunmen squeezed off at least a score of shots. Thirteen shotgun pellets tore into Malcolm's chest and heart; several slugs from .45-and .38-cal. pistols shattered his thighs and legs. A woman screamed: "Oh, black folks, black folks, why you got to kill each other...
After Hawkins came Francis Drake, a seagoing genius who found the pulsing lifeline of the Spanish empire-the great artery of gold that flowed from Peru to the Isthmus of Panama, and from the Isthmus to Madrid-and tore at it like a tiger. In his most famous exploit, Drake sailed up the west coast of South America, sacking the Spanish seaports as he passed. At Tarapaza, "being landed, we found by the Sea side a Spaniard lying asleepe, who had lying by him 13. barres of silver; we tooke the silver, and left the man." Off Colombia he seized...