Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three CBS television staffers were ordered out of the country. The government accused them of filming a mass funeral of Black riot victims in "flagrant contempt" of a court prohibition...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa--At least 30,000 Black mourners, joined by hundreds of whites, turned a mass funeral for 17 Black riot victims yesterday into a vast demonstration of opposition to aparheid...
Police reported two Blacks were killed by security officers. They said police shotgun fire killed a man in the western Transvaal province and a youth died of injuries suffered when police quelled a riot in Potchefstroom, southwest of Johannesburg...
...news, it could be said, is divided into three parts. The first, where most of the excitement lies, is the unexpected--the earthquake, the coup, the riot, the crash, the death of some prominent person. The second is the known event heading toward resolution--the forthcoming election, the fate of a bill in the legislature, the possibility of a veto--on which the paper provides progress reports...
Marcos' wife, Imelda, voted at a high schooltwo blocks from Malacanang Palace, which wasguarded by hundreds of soldiers and riot police.National television gave the event full coverage,showing election workers stamping indelible ink onher hand, a method to ensure people vote onlyonce...