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Article: talking about a revolution
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- December 17, 1995
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paris 6.30pm on Thursday: a group of demonstrators wending
their way home from the student protest via the university suddenly
break into a run. A single voice yells from behind an upturned car
and a Molotov cocktail whirls through the air, exploding into the
window of a nearby bar. On the corner a band of CRS policemen,
armed with machine guns, stands impassive beneath riot helmets.
Then, spotting a second youth preparing to launch a follow-up
Molotov, they advance, heads lowered against a shower of gravel
hurled from the rooftops, but they succeed only in driving the
protesters back into the safe haven of the university grounds.
Revolutionary students manning the barricades in the Latin ...