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The riots at the World Trade Organization summit in Seattle were the world's top story Wednesday.
Unsettled by sanctions, riots, and the West's steady bombing, the dictator has been firing military brass and assassinating clerics.
Note 7: Finkelstein notes that anti-Semitism in other countries was often worse; there was, in pre-Hitler Germany, "no equivalent of the riots that attended the Dreyfus Affair in France or the pogroms in Russia."
The LAT goes with Jakarta student street riots over a just-passed bill that has raised fears of a coup because it bestows new emergency powers on the Indonesian military.
In 1967 Penang was hit by serious riots, which highlighted the fact that political and social harmony could not be taken for granted.