CBS Evening News - 1977-06-23
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[0:02] this is the CBS Evening News with Walter
[0:06] Cronkite good evening black students in
[0:09] the South African ghetto of Soweto stage
[0:11] one of their largest and most violent
[0:13] anti-government demonstrations today one
[0:15] youth was killed by police gunfire two
[0:18] children were trampled to death by a
[0:19] runaway horse-drawn wagon and scores
[0:21] were injured Robin Wright reports
[0:27] exploded throughout the troubled African
[0:29] Township of Soweto today as police
[0:32] fought to break up mobs of protesting
[0:34] students
[0:35] police attacked taunting crowds with the
[0:38] crippling gas in a day of tense
[0:40] confrontations that moved suddenly from
[0:42] one trouble spot to another and then
[0:44] back again as students regroup the
[0:47] clashes grew rapidly to the danger Point
[0:49] Police switching from tear gas to guns
[0:52] when students switch from jeers to Stone
[0:55] throwing refusing to disperse both sides
[0:58] were determined to make their points the
[1:01] tension erupted when students took to
[1:03] the streets to protest the recent
[1:04] Detention of their leaders and the
[1:07] double standard of education for blacks
[1:09] and whites in South Africa the
[1:11] demonstrations began peacefully students
[1:14] carrying signs and singing in areas
[1:16] cordoned off by homemade roadblocks
[1:19] hundreds marched through several
[1:21] sections of the sprawling ghetto then
[1:23] the police arrived
[1:25] an anger grew into violence
[1:29] [Music]
[1:31] several Vehicles were set on fire as
[1:33] used took out their frustrations
[1:36] tens of thousands of African students
[1:38] made it clear today there will be no
[1:40] peace until their demands are met
[1:43] Robin Wright for CBS News Soweto
[1:47] the man who