The World - News from Oct. 24, 1988

Several hundred people defied an official police ban and demonstrated in Budapest to commemorate the 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet control. The official MTI news agency said that five people were detained after they refused to provide police with identification, lacked proper documents or made “offensive statements.” There was no violence reported, however. The demonstrators toured city landmarks while about 4,000 riot police patrolled those sites, which are considered symbolic to the uprising, which was crushed by Soviet tanks.