There had been a series of events leading up to the first march including the murder of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a protester for voting rights who had been shot down in cold blood by an Alabama State Trooper.

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At the opposite end of the country, along Iran's border with Afghanistan and Pakistan, the security forces are also being stretched by dozens of bandit groups and particularly by the savagery of Abdolmalek Rigi, a young Baluch who kills in cold blood in the name of his vaunted ideals, Sunni Islam and Baluchi nationalism.

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