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Article: Beijing Protest Ends Peacefully;Police Tactics May Have Resulted in Uniting Students
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- The Washington Post
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- January 3, 1987
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Chinese students, who peacefully ended a march in Beijing's
Tiananmen Square early this morning, were spurred on by the way the
police handled earlier demonstrations, foreign observers here say.
Despite a ban on unauthorized demonstrations, about 1,000
students marched for nine miles in snow in the middle of the night to
reach the square.
En route, the students trudged through lines of police who tried
to block their path at four points. The police offered no further
resistance.
At 3:30 a.m., the marchers arrived at the empty, snow-covered
square in the center of Beijing. This was the same square where the
police had taken a number of students into custody yesterday. But
this time the ...