Word: thousanders
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...still be scoring with it." Chief of Staff Howard Baker was reluctant to go along with the confrontational strategy; he tried to remove the tough language from the President's speech, until one of his aides threatened to quit over the matter. "Baker's dying a thousand deaths right now," said a White House source. "He wants to compromise, to make a deal. He has trouble realizing that we've got to hold to an absolute position . . . To concede now would be to give up the last remnants of power that Reagan...
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...
...wave of demonstrations broke out two weeks ago to protest the selection of Roh Tae Woo, chairman of the ruling Democratic Justice Party, as its nominee for President in the national elections scheduled for later this year. But in contrast to the first disturbances, which involved only a few thousand students and were primarily limited to Seoul, the capital, last week's demonstrations drew crowds as large as 50,000 and flared in more than two dozen cities. In the southern port of Pusan, according to some reports, protesters burned five municipal buses and seized a garbage truck...
...woofed one last time before going on unemployment, the Norwegian bachelor farmers have made their final appearance at the Chatterbox Cafe, and Keillor has carried on shamelessly. "I'm going away, for to stay a little while," he has sung, "but I'm coming back, if I go ten thousand miles." Does he mean it? The ON THE AIR sign turns dark, and Keillor bows himself offstage. Goodbye, love...
John Paul also paid an emotional visit to the Majdanek concentration camp, where several hundred thousand people, mostly Jews, were killed during World War II. As he 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...