Word: riot
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Widespread public support for the students as they bravely stood their ground against pepper-gas-firing riot police transformed Roh the Chun Puppet into Roh the Democrat. On June 29 Roh invited a television crew to remain behind after he had addressed a routine meeting of the D.J.P. To the amazement of those present, Roh announced that he would resign from all his party positions unless the Chun government agreed to eight democratic reforms, including direct presidential elections, freedom of the press and pardons for political prisoners. The June 29 Declaration, as it is now known, stunned his party...
Meantime, government riot police stood ready to open a mine in the Silesian town of Jastrzebie in order to permit safety crews to combat an underground fire and relieve accumulations of methane gas. After vowing to keep the troops from entering, several hundred militant strikers backed down...
...wave of resistance to military service has been rising among white youths since 1985, when the South African Defense Force, 106,000 strong, stepped up its intervention in the Angolan civil war and moved into riot-torn black townships at home. Only a handful of young men out of the annual draft of some 34,000 failed to report for the 1984 call-up, but the following year the number of evaders jumped to more than 1,500. Since then the Defense Ministry has refused to release the statistics...
Rumania's troubles broke into the open last November, when a riot by 10,000 workers and residents in the industrial city of Brasov touched off a chain of smaller work stoppages and protests across the country. "For the first time in memory," says an experienced political observer in the Transylvanian city of Cluj, "there are signs that this crazy leadership is losing its grip...
...newly appointed warden at Lompoc. Headlined THE GULAG MENTALITY, Martin's article charged that Rison had increased tension at the prison by limiting access to the recreation yard and replacing the inmates' individually decorated and highly prized chairs with plain gray folding chairs. "He's tryin' to start a riot," complained an unidentified convict in Martin's story. "We might just as well give him one and get it over with...