Word: crowded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...talks with Shultz Friday and Saturday, they may find it possible to discuss their original subject: arrangements for a summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev late this year. Though Shultz promised to press for a full release of Daniloff, that subject + no longer seems likely to crowd everything else off the agenda...
...halted and burned on the spot. Security forces moved in rapidly, spraying the streets with tear gas. By 10 a.m., thousands of blacks had congregated outside the locked gates of Jabavu Stadium for the funeral services. Their prayers for the dead were never said. Police encircled the crowd and unleashed canisters of tear gas, scattering the mourners...
...Avalon Cemetery, some 8,000 blacks congregated to bury 15 of their slain fellows. As the crowd sang forbidden songs of freedom and chanted banned slogans, security forces moved in. New bursts of blinding gas forced the mourners to flee in all directions, for the moment leaving some of the coffins only half buried. The next day several of the remaining bodies were buried without incident. But the clash of wills between the police and many of Soweto's 2 million blacks is far from over...
...final stop in the procession was Avalon Cemetery. Security forces broke up the crowd and seized four undertakers for ignoring police orders to maintain custody of the bodies. The four were later released. In the end, the deceased got the burial that the government wanted: no flags, no slogans, no crowds even approaching 200 mourners...
...sprained ankle when a nervous ambulance driver ran over her foot, called the scramble "one of those Three Stooges comedy situations." By that time the Pakistani commandos | were moving in on the plane. Moments later, when one of the terrorists attempted to escape by melting into the fleeing crowd, he was identified by angry passengers and arrested on the spot...