The World - News from Aug. 23, 1989
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South African police used whips, tear gas and rubber bullets in clashes with mixed-race schoolchildren gathering for an anti-apartheid rally in Cape Town, and 113 protesting hospital workers were arrested. In Durban, police arrested nine white anti-apartheid activists. Conflict between police and activists has escalated recently as a mass defiance campaign against apartheid laws and emergency restrictions has spread to most major cities.
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