Word: rioting
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Scores of barriers were set afire and plumes of black smoke rose over the city. The protesters ran when approached by riot troops, whose heavy deployment prevented larger demonstrations...
...riot troops, wearing gas masks and holding clubs and shields, fired tear gas to disperse protesters. The clang of pots and pans--a familiar symbol now of anti-government protest--rang out from some apartment buildings...
...Saturday, Harvard students manufactured a crisis in which the president of Panama was assasinated, a riot broke out at the U.S. embassy, and the CIA was found to be involved with drug smuggling. Students on the NSC were woken up at 6:30 a.m. and summoned downstairs to deal with the situation. As the day progressed, the Harvard crisis-makers were busy manufacturing bits of information which they alternately passed on to the different groups in the NSC--the White House staff, the Defense Department, the CIA, and the State Department--who generally kept the information to themselves...
...Anti-riot police chased the protesters into side streets and apartment buildings. Chunks of concrete were hurled down at police from at least two of the apartment houses...
...Riot police blocked Tutu and two dozen other religious leaders, wearing robes and holding Bibles, as they tried to march toward Parliament from nearby St. George's Cathedral, the main Anglican church in central Cape Town...