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KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban attacked Afghan police posts in a violent and long-contested corner of southern Afghanistan, setting off two days of clashes that left at least six police officers dead, Afghan officials said Tuesday, though the American-led coalition played down the violence as little more than "drive-by shootings".

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In his fury, he shoots into the street and hits a driver who ploughs into some schoolchildren, setting off three days of riots in which many are killed.

The most notorious clash between the groups took place during the Crown Heights Riots in August 1991, when a 7-year-old black boy was hit and killed by a Hasidic driver as part of a funeral procession for a Lubavitcher rebbe, setting off four days of violence.

In Handsworth, Birmingham, in 1985, another arrest set off two days and nights of looting and arson.

The power outages and fuel shortages, coupled with daytime temperatures of 120 degrees and higher, set off two days of demonstrations that left at least one person dead.

In his first detailed remarks since the bombing of a prominent Shiite mosque on Wednesday set off two days of deadly reprisals and counterreprisals, the president warned, "The days ahead in Iraq are going to be difficult and exhausting". After conferring Friday with his top military commander in Iraq and his ambassador there, Mr. Bush called for patience, diplomacy, negotiation and compromise.

Here she is in 1969, a leader of the Weathermen who set off four "Days of Rage" in Chicago, smashing downtown store windows to strike at capitalist oppressors.

The student killings set off three days of rioting, looting and arson that left more than 1,000 people dead and sections of the capital in ruins.

The shooting last Sunday set off three days of protests by people who felt that the shooting was an unfair and unnecessary use of police force.

The killing of Peter Fechter set off five days of riotous demonstrations by West Berliners, many of whom were bitterly resentful because no Americans went to the aid of the wounded refugee.

The scene plays twice in the film: once near the beginning, just before the story flashes back to events set off four days earlier, and again near the end, when that story comes full circle.

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