STUDENTS STAGE SOUTH AFRICA PROTESTS
From News Services and Staff Reports
Column: AROUND THE REGION
Saturday, October 11, 1986
; Page B03
About 200 slogan-chanting students, some carrying coffins or waving
banners, marched down Pennsylvania Avenue NW yesterday to protest U.S.
involvement in South Africa and propose a total embargo on trade with the
white-minority regime there.
D.C. police closed the avenue to traffic for about 15 minutes as the
procession marched from the Foggy Bottom Metro station to Lafayette Park. The
students came from 10 area universities representing the D.C. Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism.
In another protest against South Africa's apartheid policy, a dozen
University of Maryland students camped out Thursday night on the lawn of
university President John Toll on the College Park campus. They asked for
consideration of their demand that the school divest its companies that do
business in South Africa.
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