His death a week later, April 19, touched off days of protests that culminated in looting, arson and rioting in a number of neighborhoods, forcing city officials to call in the National Guard and implement a curfew.
Watts and Black theorize that the DOE is developing a biological weapon which would incite violence and rioting in a targeted population; they learn that the research is being conducted by scientists involved in the Human Genome Project.
The title, you may recall, comes from one of the great slogans of the 1968 demonstrations and riots in Paris: a promise of carnivalesque freedom coined by the Situationists, the avant-garde group founded in 1957 by Guy Debord.
The General is now told by one of his aides-de-camp that General Rafael Urdaneta has taken over the government in Bogotá, and there are reports of demonstrations and riots in support of a return to power by Bolívar.
In Yemen, prices for bread and other foods have nearly doubled in the past four months, setting off a string of demonstrations and riots in which at least a dozen people were killed.
But while the upheaval of recent months — with turmoil over the euro, protests in Athens and Madrid and riots in London — has been a source of trepidation across Europe, Mr. Neidlein sees opportunity amid the turmoil.
It was a violent time, with war in Vietnam and riots in US cities. Burden wore a T-shirt and jeans and, after being shot, clutched his arm, looking stunned even though he planned it all.
In May the government moved against Ansar al-Shariah, banning its annual gathering and suppressing riots in a Tunis suburb.
His success in his new job, however, will depend on whether he can feel an even greater obligation to the city's pupils.The turning-down point for New York's schools, many say, was a destructive series of strikes and race riots in a poor part of Brooklyn in 1968.
