The World - News from Feb. 20, 1987

Rock-throwing Surinamese students clashed with police in downtown Paramaribo as protests intensified against the military regime of Lt. Col. Desi Bouterse, witnesses said. An estimated 2,000 students marched through the center of the city, stopping at high schools and urging other students to join them in the third day of protests against the shortage of basic foods. Two people were arrested when police used clubs to disperse a crowd of students at a downtown square, the witnesses said.