PANAMA: VIOLENCE IS FEATURE OF DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S OFFER OF SANCTUARY TO FORMER SHAH OF IRAN

Record ID: 922784

  • Title: PANAMA: VIOLENCE IS FEATURE OF DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST GOVERNMENT'S OFFER OF SANCTUARY TO FORMER SHAH OF IRAN
  • Date: 21st December 1979
  • Summary: 1. GV: Soldiers and crowds in streets of Panama City 0.03 2. SV: Demonstrators carrying banners claiming the Shah is a modern day Hitler and carrying effigies of Shah and Uncle Sam (5 shots) 0.18 3. GV: Demonstrators standing together 0.22 4. SV: Graffiti on wall and demonstrators spraying more Anti-Shah slogans on wall 0.24 5. SCU: Policemen walking towards demonstrators 0.27 6. GV: Police on motorcycles assembled (2 shots) 0.34 7. GV PAN: Police on motorcycles rush into demonstration and others on foot follow 1.04 8. SV: Police arresting demonstrators as others try to release their friends 1.20 9. GV PAN: Police continue to clear street 1.25 10. SV: Injured demonstrator taken away by policemen 1.30 11. GV PAN: Police with seized banners reassemble 1.41 12. SCU: Women weeping 1.42 13. GV: Plain clothes policemen stopping bus 1.49 14. SV: Troops watching from across the road 1.52 15. SV: Plain clothes policeman taking man from bus away using his billy stick (2 shots) 2.02 Initials EOS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
  • Country: Panama
  • Reuters ID: LVA85MRXUU7PJ018NPW6GOMILN9D
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Story Text: President Aristides Royo of Panama says he sympathises with student demonstrations against his decision to grant refuge to the deposed Shah of Iran ... but he says the Panamanian Government wanted to bring about a peaceful settlement to the crisis between Iran and the United States. Daily, hundreds of students have staged protest demonstrations against the Shah's presence.

    SYNOPSIS: This was the third day of demonstrations in Panama City (December 19). It was to be the worst outbreak of violence in the General American country since the former Shah arrived on Saturday (December 15) to take up residence on the Pacific resort island of Contadora at the invitation of the government.

    After two days of confrontations, the police were ready in force for the students who assembled at a college for a march through the streets. There were estimated to be about five hundred students, an unknown number of ordinary police, and about one hundred special riot police. The police used tear gas, the students retaliated by throwing stores and acid bottles.

    There were further injuries as some students attempted to release their friends who had been arrested. The number of arrested. The number of arrests during the day was not immediately reported.

    One estimate said about twenty-five students suffered cuts and bruises and two were injured by shot-gun pellets. But there has been no confirmation of exact numbers of injuries to demonstrators or police. The police took possession of anti-Shah and anti-United States banners. Parents of the demonstrators gathered in anxious groups outside the college.

    The tension in the streets of Panama City reflects the international tension which has developed between the United States and iran over the future of the former Shah.
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