Students, Police Clash in Seoul
Associated Press
SEOUL —
Thousands of students hurled rocks and firebombs in a clash with riot police today to mark the eighth anniversary of a bloody civil uprising in the southern city of Kwangju.
The current wave of protests, which began Monday, continued to spread as dissidents and radical students prepared to mark the protests on May 18, 1980, in which 200 people died in the city of Kwangju, 165 miles south of Seoul.
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