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...most South Koreans seemed inclined to view the reform package as a ^ good-faith offer. "We have finished the first struggle," said one student leader. "Now let's see how it turns out." For the first time in more than three weeks, riot police disappeared from the streets, and cities were generally quiet...
...urging, the President then freed the other leader, Kim Dae Jung, from eleven weeks of house arrest. The stopover by Sigur, who is Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was prompted by growing alarm in Washington at the nightly clashes between demonstrators and riot police in the cities of a major ally. Sigur urged Chun and other officials not to overreact to the demonstrations, especially by calling out the military, as they have done in the past. Said Sigur: "Any use of the armed forces in this situation is unwarranted...
Charging into a crowd of several thousand protesting students one night last week in the huge square in front of the Bank of Korea, a unit of 80 riot police suddenly found themselves cut off from reinforcements. A sea of chanting demonstrators quickly surrounded the police, who had already used up their supplies of pepper gas, a concentrated and particularly painful form of tear gas. Outnumbered and overwhelmed, the police, many of them young conscripts, knelt in terror behind their riot shields, trying to fend off a torrent of rocks and gas canisters thrown by the students. The protesters began...
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...
...prayed silently for five minutes over a mound of the victims' commingled bones and ashes, tears welled in his eyes. Throughout the trip, the Pope was surrounded by legions of militia and other security personnel, whose intimidating numbers may have kept down attendance at some events. In Gdansk riot police clashed briefly with some 10,000 worshipers marching toward a Solidarity worker's monument...