Rioting in Britain
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• vr- »vf- 24 - THE HERALD, Thun., June 11, IW ft If > Serving the Manchester, Conn. Manchester area Monday, July 13, 1981 for 100 years Imlh 25 Cents Rioting in Britain •• i- LONDON (U P I) - Britoin’s ur police for three hours. They broke ban riots spead across U cities into small hit-and-run groups, today with blacka, Asians and pelting officers with stones and gas whites battHng police and oline bombs before slipping into the firefighters in hit-and-run attacks. darkness. Qum Elizabeth was reported Leicester police called in rein "shocked” and “ concerned" by the forcements from as far as London, 10 consecutive nights of violence and 100 miles to the south. At least five was expected to receive a detailed police were injured, including one report from Prime Minister with a head wound requiring 19 M ^ a ret Thatcher at Buckingham stitches. Police said 31 youths were Palace Tuesday night. arrested. In all, at least US youths were A lens manufacturing company arrested Sunday and early today, and paint store were torched and and 13 . policemen were injured — numerous other shops had windows lower figures than in earlier nights smashed. Police reported less of the rioting when more than 200 looting than Saturday night. police were injured and arrests Outbreaks , of what police termed topped 200. The arson and looting “ mindless vandalism" and have scarred 30 English cities and “ hooliganism gone wild” also oc The pipe bands march In for Saturday’s performance at the towns. curred in Derby, Birmingham, Manchester Bicentennial Band Shell. Four bands, along vi/lth the Worst hit 6f the 11 cities Sunday Wolverhampton, Luton, Southhamp Bands march in Martha White Singers and Irish dancers, took part In the night was Leicester where 500 peo ton, Ldeds, Huddersfield, Halifax, Manchester Association of Pipe Bands Festival.- (Herald photo by ple, including skinheads and Aslans H i ^ Wycombe and London for the Pinto) 10th straight night. who often fight each other, battled IRA fasfer.dies Seniors spared from heat BELFAST, Northern Ireland witness to their faith and commit not eating, was the quickest of the (U PI) — IRA hunger striker Martin: ment to political union with Britain. six who have condemned Hurson died today, the sixth Some 20,000 O rangem en w ere themselves to die since the*, fasts with air-conditioned halls prisrmer to starve himself to death expected to parade in Belfast. began in March. AH the others had in a demand .for political prisoner The two other IR A strikers said to lasted at least 59 days. status, and two. more inmates were be weakening by the Maze Prison H- Of the six deaths so far, four were weakening. Block Committee were Kieran in May in the first group of fasters. were at the meeting room after it conditioned meeting halls open There were no immediate reports Doherty, 25, confined to a and now two have come from the By Nancy Thompson was opened Saturday and on Sun for the residents on evenings and of violence, but within an hour of wheelchair on the 53rd day of his replacements of the original four — Herald Reporter day. “ I thought it was very weekends w ill continue “ as long fast and Kevin Lynch in his 52nd lead by Bobby Sands, who suc good,” she said. “It wasn’t as the hot weather continues,” Hurson’s death in Maze Prison, MANCHESTER — Residents cumbed May 9. Besides replacing planned so it was really word of Mastrangelo said. It will also be women in Catholic west Belfast day. of three senior citizens’ housing began btowing.whlstles and banging Britain’s Northern Ireland Office the original four, the IR A added four mouth that it got around.” reinstated "when we see a more. projects got a break from the trash can lids — the signal for start said Hurson, who was the only in weekend like this past weekend The death of Hurson came after heat this weekend when the Hagenow said Westhill of past rioting. mate to replace a faster who called or anything similar,” Hagenow the hunger strikers rejected Housing Authority opened air- Gardens, which is the largest of Hurson, 26, died within hours of o ff his ordeal, died at 4:30 a.m. "H e conditioned meeting halls to the ' added. took his own life by refusing food Catholic mediation of the Dublin- the projects, had th e ' biggest the scheduled start of the traditional tenants. and medical attention lor 45 days.” based Peace and Justice Commis attendance, but, "A ll projects Some of the units in the .Orange Day parades when Northern About 20 percent of the elderly Hurson's death, in the 45th day of sion to end their fast to the death. had some people there.” projects have their own air con:, Ireland Protestants march in residents of Spencer Village, ditioning, but most don’t, Mrs. M ayfair Gardens and Westhill “ People came in and went out Gardens housing projects took as they wanted to cool off,” he Fagan said. advantage of the action, which said. “ They’d play cards for a “ One lady who was there has offered air-conditioned oases few hours and then leave as they her own air conditioning but she away from 90 degree heat and cooled off.” came there just to be with Poland restless high humidity,' according to Bob The temperature in the others,” Mrs. Fagan said. “ You Hagenow, maintenance super meeting halls was between 75 don’t mind the heat so much if visor. and 80 degrees, Hagenow said. you’re doing something, even if government does not respond to newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci both WARSAW, Poland (UPI) - ’The meeting halls, which are Hagenow said the meeting you just sit and talk. You can do their demands for better conditions. attacked “ counter-revolutionaries Transport workers struck the cen usually closed on weekends, were rooms were closed about 9 or 10 anything you like — read or talk ’Die new labor unrest came after and anti-socialists,” especially the tral city of Kutno for two hours opened by. order of Pascal p.m. after all residents had gone to others or play cards. the government began taking a dissident groups KOR and the t ^ y and workers threatened other Mastrangelo, chairman of the back to their apartments. The tougher line toward Solidarity and Confederation of Independent protests on the eve of the extraor Housing Authority, following a rooms were kept open as long as “ As time went by, it was really other . groups prior to ’Tuesday’s Poland. dinary Conununist Party congress suggestion from town Director residents wanted to stay, he said. a lot of fun. 1,enjoyed it and I opening o f the party congress — a Zolnierz called them "a m arrM that w ill chart Poland’s future. James R. McCavanagh. think everyone'else did, too.” couple ... united by hatred and a Kutno. commuter buses stopped policy Polish television told the na McCavanagh, secietary of the ‘ ‘Some of them don’t even want temporary common interest in their running for two hours, from 6 a.m. tion had pleased Moscow. Board of Directors, suggested to come up. ’They can’t take the struggle against socialism.” to 9 a.m. local time, and other city The official party newspaper the halls be opened after he saw a cold because of their arthritis,” The television report, citing a new traiuqiort stopped from 10 a.m. until Trybuna Ludud went so far as to ac television report on similar ac he noted. For others, he said, the cuse the discredited regime of get-tough attitude toward the 10- noon in a Solidarity union protest tion in Milford. air conditioning is beneficial million-member Solidarity union, against food shortages. Edward Gierek of having caused the “ It was wonderful,” said Alice because high humidity can noted a government refusal last A> Solidarity sptdcesman said the economic crisis by turning his back Fagan, a member of the Housing aggravate breathing problems. week to allow employees to elect the Kutno union would m eet ’Tuesday to on the Soviet bloc. Authority and resident of In addition to the weekend head of the state-nui airline LOT. depide whether to go ahpad with a "Under the camouflage of slogans Westhill Gardens who was in opening, Hagenow said, the Open and Uie staff struck for four hours last "hunger march" Wednesday as food on strengthening Polish-Soviet charge of the meeting room meeting rooms w ill be kept open week and has threatened an in supplies sunsrisingly began to im friendship, the policy of loosening there. “ Everybody seem ^ to ap in the evening during hot definite strike starting July 24. prove. ties with the socialist countries was preciate itr-We were very weather. ’The rooms are usually pursued, a policy which made our Police also arrest^ three anti shut case "H am appeared In butcher shops pleased. open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. communist dissidents and 10 for the first, tim e In months,” he economy dependent on highly in “ I was very glad to go up there, ‘ "rhey’re welcome up here any Solidarity members who were said.. dustrialized capitalist countries — believe me.” tim e,” Hagenow said. BEDFORD, Ind. (U P I) — Only a pasting up posters. ’The govOmment Solidarity warned that to which Poland now owes |27 Mrs. Fagan said 14 to 18 people The practice of keeping the air day after its “ Grand Reopening,” longshoremen, fisherman and billion,” ’Trybuna said. also has tightened censorship of the newly remodfeled Greystone seamen will strike ’Thursday if the ’Trybuna and the official army television news broadcasts.