Word: incidentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"We do not believe there was any tragedy in Tiananmen Square," declared Jiang. The incident, he went on, was the "unavoidable" consequence of the attempt by some demonstrators to "overthrow the socialist system." He likened media reports about the situation in Beijing to "fairy tales from the Arabian Nights."
The newsstand's manager, Phil Nini, said he would not comment on the incident until this morning. An employee of the Greenhouse cafe said the manager "would probably not want to discuss it."
Although Barrow was not attending a party at the time of his arrest, he said the incident leading to it arose when a city resident leaving a Claverly party smashed the Centrex phone outside his dormitory.
Police reports said Barrow was involved in afight with the Cambridge resident, but he calledthe incident "more a matter of brinksmanship."
In the largest antiapartheid demonstration in 29 years, more than 20,000 people, mostly black and mixed race, marched without incident in the southern city of Cape Town. Said De Klerk: "The door to a new South Africa is open."