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South Africa Riots (PSA, 1985)

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In South Africa, riots in a squatters camp, police fired on stone throwing blacks, killing at least five, and wounding some 60 others. The government wants blacks to abandon the shantytown and resettle elsewhere. An athlete Jeff Keath, his right leg lost to cancer today, finished his coast-to-coast marathon.

I'm Chuck Scarborough in New York.

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