PANAMA: STUDENTS CLASH WITH RIOT POLICE IN PROTEST AT PRESENCE IN COUNTRY OF FORMER SHAH OF IRAN

Record ID: 921288

  • Title: PANAMA: STUDENTS CLASH WITH RIOT POLICE IN PROTEST AT PRESENCE IN COUNTRY OF FORMER SHAH OF IRAN
  • Date: 4th January 1980
  • Summary: 1. GV & CU PAN Guardsmen lined across road (2 shots) 0.15 2. LV Students lined across road 0.22 3. GV PAN Guardsmen firing tear gas and shotguns chase students along road 0.42 4. LV People watch from windows as students throw missiles at chasing guardsmen (4 shots) 1.00 5. GV Students run into school building 1.10 6. LV & CU Guardsmen take up position outside school (4 shots) 1.24 7. LV & SV Red Cross with flag and ambulance (2 shots) 1.39 8. CU & SV Guardsmen watch as Red Cross men talk with officer (2 shots) 1.50 9. SV & LV FAN Chairs in street thrown from school building and guardsmen lining road as ambulance drives away (3 shots) 2.09 Initials dn/ Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
  • Country: Panama
  • Reuters ID: LVAEP3G1QVD7CTE50YLPJW08X55A
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: In Panama ... hundreds of students have clashed with riot police in renewed demonstrations against the presence of the ex-Shah of Iran. Hospitals have reported that at least 29 people have been injured.

    SYNOPSIS: The demonstration came after about 10 days of relative cal. It followed the departure for Iran of a delegation from the students' federation of Panama. They had been invited by the Moslem students occupying the United States Embassy in Teheran.

    Police armed with pellet guns, tear gas and batons charged the demonstrators and dispersed them.

    Some of the students responded by throwing rocks at the security forces. The object of the students' demonstration, the former Shah, is living in a fortress-like villa on the Pacific Ocean resort island of Contadora. Once the students were dispersed they took sanctuary in a school, one of the biggest secondary schools in Panama City.

    Once inside the school the two sides were faced with an uneasy stalemate. It was only the arrival of the Red Cross which broke the deadlock and eased the tension.

    Following talks with the Red Cross the police eventually left the scene.

    The demonstrations have flared periodically since the Shah arrived in Panama after treatment for cancer in the U.S. Panamanian President Aristides Royo has said he will consider extraditing the deposed Shah if the 50 American hostages held in Iran are released.
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