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by jeremy Campbell 
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FEBRUARY 5: Nearly eighty years after the city erupted in what many historians regard as the nation’s bloodiest race riot, a state commission in Tulsa, Oklahoma recommended reparations be made
to the aged black survivors who watched as their homes and neighbors were destroyed in the June 1-2, 1921 Tulsa Race Riots. The town purportedly deputized nearly 100 white citizens, many of whom were Klan members, and gave them full license to exact their justice. Over 400 blacks died.  
 
FEBRUARY 6: Dissident students were ejected from Latin America’s largest university, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (the UNAM, located in Mexico City). Police ousted students striking violently against a proposed tuition increase; 700 were arrested while thousands more continued to
 
  protest official sanctions and action. All parties wanted to avoid a repeat of the 1968 massacre of university students in Mexico City, though students remain outspoken against the Zedillo government and its foreign and domestic economic policies.
 
FEBRUARY 7: A bomb ripped through a rural hotel outside of Belfast, Northern Ireland, further
 
endangering the fragile peace accords and the tenuous existence of the province’s four-party ruling Cabinet. The Continuity IRA, a small political group that is opposed to Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace accord, planted the bomb in an attempt to drive any wedges wherever it could: between the province and Britain, between the Ulster Unionist party and Gerry Adams’s Sinn Fein, or perhaps simply between the scared citizens of their nation.