Students Jostle Mitterrand on Indonesia Visit
Students protesting President Suharto’s policies today pushed and jostled French President Francois Mitterrand on the second day of his state visit.
A unit of troops in battle fatigues and carrying rifles was brought in to control an estimated 3,000 Indonesian students in Bandung, 90 miles south of the capital, after they swamped security men and surged toward the president’s motorcade outside the Bandung Institute of Technology.
Mitterrand had to push some students away with his hands as he edged forward toward a conference hall at the respected institute, where he was to give a speech.
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