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Before an African-American congregation in South Central Los Angeles, he discards his feel-good paean to the new millennium and tells his stunned audience that he hasn't returned to their neighborhood since the riots because the photo op has passed and that no Democrat will ever pay attention to them because they don't give any money to campaigns.
There were riots, and the brutal reception of Moynihan's report on the black family, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville teachers' wars, and open admissions at City College.
In fact, it was the flashpoint for protests and riots during the busing controversy in the 1970s.
Nigeria watch: All papers' front pages (except for the Washington Post , which links a front-page photo to an inside story), cover the riots in the capital of Lagos and several towns, which were sparked by the Tuesday death of opposition leader Moshood Abiola and by military leader Abubakar's Wednesday dissolution of his Cabinet.
The poisoned water made the mainly Indonesian detainees vomit blood and "triggered riots which were brutally suppressed," the Observer said.