Word: vigillantly
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...boredom, but the proximate cause of the civil explosion was the Securitate. When its officers tried to arrest an ethnic Hungarian clergyman in the western city of Timisoara (pop. 309,000) for his outspoken opposition to the government and to the policies of his own Hungarian Reformed Church, a vigil outside his house erupted into an antiregime riot. Angry mobs smashed shopwindows, burned Ceausescu's books and portraits, and besieged party headquarters and police stations. About 60,000 of the country's 1.7 million Hungarians live in the city, but the rioters included Rumanians as well...
...Southern African Solidarity Committee, which in 1985 routinely drew hundreds of committed students to its rallies, was this fall able to muster less than 30 for a candlelight vigil on essentially the same issues...
...vigil ended with a moment of silence and ataped rendition of the African Anthem...
During the vigil, event organizer M. ScottMurphy '92 made a short speech paying tribute toStephen Biko, an anti-apartheid activist who wasbeaten to death in a South African prison...
...Thursday, SASC placed 45 white crosses infront of Memorial Church, bearing the names ofSouth Africans who have died in recent years.Murphy said the crosses were intended to providepublicity for last night's vigil...