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...dozen soldiers who marched to the central telegraph office on Tverskaya Street, when confronted by outraged Muscovites, showed them that the clip of his automatic weapon was empty. When the tanks did move, people were ready with gasoline-filled bottles (named, of course, after the old Stalinist V.M. Molotov). Tank drivers, even paratroop commanders, defected to the resistance. Miners went on strike...
Since Chun's self-immolation, five more protesters have turned themselves into human versions of the Molotov cocktails students throw with alarming regularity during South Korea's annual spring demonstration season. Although the suicides have failed to produce the massive demonstrations that pushed the previous regime from power in 1987, President Roh Tae Woo fired his hard-line Prime Minister last week and promised other reforms, hoping to end this season's violence. But street clashes continued, killing one more person at week...
...field of skulls. With no money from home, he worked at odd jobs and slept in a succession of offices and friends' apartments. But his real vocation was activism: he was part of a 60-person "torch force" that led demonstrators into battle with police by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails...
Many soldiers joined the students or handed over their weapons. Two Soviet mechanized divisions stationed outside Budapest rumbled into the city and were met by sniper fire and Molotov cocktails. The unimaginable was happening: for the first time in history, a Soviet satellite state was succeeding in open, armed revolt...
Framingham police and the FBI were investigating the fire bombing of an armed services recruiting office early yesterday. Police said three molotov cocktails were tossed into the building. Damage was not serious, and no one was injured...