Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...David Bowie, Eurythmics and Genesis performed on successive nights in front of the Reichstag building, home of the former German parliament, before more than 60,000 pop-music fans. Some 350 yards away on the other side of the Berlin Wall, crowds of young people clashed with East German riot police who prevented them from getting close enough to hear the music. When police chased them with nightsticks, angry rock fans pelted them with bottles and chanted, "The Wall must go." In the apparent hope that the Soviet campaign for glasnost will allow them more freedom, they also shouted...
Though most analysts dismissed the possibility of U.S. involvement, the charges were enough to send thousands of angry youths into the streets to demand the ouster of Noriega and a return to democracy. The demonstrators ; constructed barricades of burning rubbish and tires, and fought pitched battles with squads of riot police nicknamed "Dobermans." At noon and 6 p.m. each day middle-class protesters hung out of their windows, waving white handkerchiefs and making an antigovernment racket by beating on pots and pans...
SEOUL, South Korea--Thousands of protesters hurling rocks and firebombs fought riot police in Seoul and other cities yesterday to protest the government party's confirmation of President Chun Doo-hwan's handpicked presidential candidate...
...Seoul, tens of thousands of protesters surged up and down main streets, throwing firebombs and stones and attacking police with sticks and clubs. Riot police repeatedly fired tear gas, and lines of officers behind shields attempted to drive the protesters back...
...Kill me! Why don't you kill me?" an elderly man screamed at a line of riot police dressed in green combat uniforms and steel helmets...