Seoul Students Clash With Riot Police
Hundreds of South Korean students, denouncing the merger of President Roh Tae Woo’s party with two opposition groups, fought a running battle with riot police in Seoul streets Tuesday.
The students, from Chungang University, wielded iron bars and hurled gasoline bombs at riot police trying to stop them from marching to the city center, witnesses said. Police fired volley after volley of tear-gas canisters to disperse the masked protesters. Local news reports said there were similar protests at seven other Seoul universities Tuesday.
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