World IN BRIEF : ROMANIA : Miners Leave Town; Police Quell Protests

Police used trucks and tear gas to clear University Square of about 800 anti-government demonstrators as club-wielding coal miners left the city, returning calm to Bucharest for the first time since Wednesday. President Ion Iliescu continued consultations on a successor to Prime Minister Petre Roman, who was forced to resign because of the violence. Meanwhile, a funeral was held for one of three people known to have died in the riots. Andrei Frumusanu, a 23-year-old engineering student, was killed when a tear-gas grenade hurled by police accidentally struck him on the head.