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...Several witnesses said Suu Kyi suffered cuts to her face, shoulder and hands from shards of glass. Others claim she was beaten with sticks. Tin Oo, her 76-year-old NLD vice chairman, was severely clubbed and may have been shot. The attackers set upon anyone without a white armband, impaling them, stripping women, splitting open skulls. When the bloodletting subsided, 40 to 80 of Suu Kyi's supporters lay dead. Soldiers carted her off, along with Tin Oo and 17 youth members of her party, to an unknown destination, though some reports place her in a military base near...
...DEMONSTRATIONS Get out your black armband. It's the biggest Inaugural protest since Nixon's, in 1973. Police and Secret Service are mobilizing 7,000 officers for a predicted 20,000 demonstrators, some of them veterans of Seattle '99. Expect placards reading hail to the thief. McPherson Square, Freedom Plaza and the Justice Department...
Others--and I am not among them--dismiss what they call the "black armband" reading of history, seeming to regard Aborigines as just another ethnic community. They also express concern for the future of the pastoral and mining industries which they see as threatened by Mabo...
Halle Berry, Harvard Foundation's cultural Artist of the Year, joined hundreds of students by wearing a green armband expressing support for ethnic studies at Cultural Rhythms on Saturday...
...makes a big show to the administration that it's not just an isolated group of students that are interested in ethnic studies," said Belinda J. McIntosh '99, who wore an armband. "It has broad support...