VIOLENCE IN RANGOON
Universities Closed (N.Z.P.A -Reuter—Copyright) BANGKOK, Dec. 12. AH universities in Rangoon have been closed two weeks early for Christmas after student demonstrations which erupted when crowds were turned away from a boxing tournament because of a ticket shortage. In a Burmese Broadcasting Service announcement heard in Bangkok, the students were advised to leave their hostels and return home. Two police cars were burned when about 300 students clashed with police on Tuesday after being turned away from a stadium where the boxing finals of the sixnation South-East Asian peninsular games were taking place. The students shouted slogans and stoned the stadium before police dispersed them.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32170, 13 December 1969, Page 13
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