Riots Flare In New York

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29316, 22 September 1960, Page 13

Riots Flare In New York

(Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, September 21. Riots flared around New York City last night over the presence of Communist leaders at the United Nations. Police swung clubs on excitable demonstrators screaming abuse at the visiting East European politicians. Several arrests and injuries were reported.

The riots came even as several of the Communist diplomats protested against the heavy police guard provided by New York City. In one three-hour melee outside the United Nations building, mounted policemen charged the demonstrators, many of whom were thrown to the ground. Then, after a few hours of more or less peaceful, though noisy, demonstrations against Mr Khrushchev and other visiting Government leaders, another riot flared near the Soviet United Nations headquarters building uptown. Demonstrators threw firecrackers and eggs at policemen and their horses. Fists and truncheons were swung as jeering, booing pickets tangled with the police. Apartment dwellers threw buckets of water from their windows, dousing pickets and police alike.

The demonstrators included Hungarians, Ukrainians, Poles, and others of Eastern European origin, representing a group called “captive countries.” The police, some of whom lost their caps in the pushing, swinging encounter, finally broke up the demonstration after the fighting flared up twice.

At the United Nations Mr Koca Popovic, Foreign Minister of Jugoslavia, interrupted a speech welcoming new United Nation members to protest against pickets parading before the Fifth avenue consulate where Marshal Tito is staying. Mr Popovic demanded that the Secretary of State, Mr Christian Herter. take immediate steps against them to ensure

Marshal Tito’s free movement about the city. The Soviet Union, Poland, and Cuba charged mistreatment by police and security guards yesterday, but the Mayor of New York, Mr Robert Wagner, said that he completely supported the city’s police force. He said the New York police would continue night and day protecting the peace and the visitors, although the task might be obnoxious to. the police, he said. Police Complain

The police had a complaint of their own. A Soviet security guard had used "strenuous physical activitiy that was highly improper,” the New York Police Commissioner Mr Stephen Kennedy, said. A leading anti-Communist in New York, Dr. Bela Fabian, a Hungarian exile leader, had a complaint too. He charged the police with being over-zealous in protecting the Communist leaders. Police had a huge security task following the path of Mr Khrushchev. He visited Harlem, the negro quarter, yesterday to meet the Cuban leader. Dr. Fidel Castro.

Crowds were mostly curious outside the Theresa Hotel, which accommodated Dr. Castro and his bearded, green-uniformed entourage after they stalked out of their mid-city hotel, protesting

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against an "unacceptable-demand” for payment in ad”ance. Also unmolested yesterday was the Hungarian Communist leader, Mr Janos Kadar. He made his first appearance in public yesterday since arriving on Monday. When walking, he walked between lanes of policemen. When driving, he was flanked by five police patrol cars, a riot squad waggon stocked with tear gas grenades, and a plain car filled with United States secret service men. Cuban Occupation Chambermaids today cleaned up the mess they said the Cuban delegation had left in their vacated rooms at the Shelburne. It included cigar and cigarette butts ground into the carpets, stale raw steaks in a refrigerator and chicken feathers all over one bed—the Cubans had done their own cooking in the rooms—and an upturned telephone with its wiring ripped from the wall.The Cuban delegation will be paying twice as much for their rooms at the Theresa as at the Shelburne, but they appeared twice as happy. < So was the negro manager of the Theresa, Mr Love Woods, who said that even if Dr Castro’s first rent cheque for 845 dollars “turns out to be no good, the publicity’s almost worth it.” The manager of the Shelburne. Mr Edward Spatz, went to hos-