The World : Tear Gas Fired in S. Africa
South African soldiers fired tear gas into crowds of defiant blacks on their way to bury a 17-year-old youth killed by gunfire in Soweto, the black township near Johannesburg. Witnesses said thousands of blacks, mostly youngsters, gathered for the funeral and ignored army orders to break up their procession. After the clash, many of the mourners made their way by different routes to the cemetery.
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