Students burn paper
NZPA-Reuter Peking Hundreds of highspirited Peking University students shouted and cried with joy yesterday as they publicly burned copies of the official “Peking Daily” for being “the tongue and throat of the Leftists.” Black smoke rose above the grounds of the elite college as students tossed, copies of the paper into the flames, watched by fellow students and some university authorities. One student said they were doing this because the paper was “the most inaccurate and most foulsmelling of the official press” in reporting a month of national student protests for more democracy.
Other students said they were demanding that the Government should give a proper and just evaluation of their protests. Illegal • wallposters
appeared at the college yesterday urging students to join in the daring lunch-time burning ceremony.
The posters accused the official news media of separating the masses from the students with its “unfair reporting.”
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