1.
GV EXT.. PALAIS MUTUALITE
0.05

2.
CV PALAIS
0.08

3.
SV POLICE STANDING ABOUT OUTSIDE PALAIS
0.16

4.
SV STUDENTS ENTERING PALAIS
0.20

5.
GV INT..TRIBUNE OFFICIALS ON ROSTRUM
0.23

6.
SV STUDENTS APPLAUDING
0.29

7.
MV TIXIER-VIGNANCOUR SPEAKING (2 SHOTS)
0.37

8.
GV AUDIENCE APPLAUDING
0.40

9.
CV TIXTER-VIGNANCOUR TALKING AGAIN
0.44

10.
MV EXT..STUDENTS JEERING
0.49

11.
SV POLICE TRY TO MOVE STUDENTS
0.53

12.
CV POLICE PUSHING STUDENTS
1.06

13.
GV STUDENTS FIGHTING AMONG THEMSELVES
1.17

14.
MV POLICEMAN
1.20

15.
GV STUDENTS FIGHTING
1.31

16.
MV POLICE TRY TO STOP STUDENTS FIGHTING
1.36



Initials DE/V/CR/EEH



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Background: STUDENTS CLASHED IN THE STREETS OF PARIS TODAY (THURSDAY) AFTER A POLITICAL MEETING ADDRESSED BY M. JEAN-LOUIS TIXIER-VIGNANCOUR. THE SPEAKER IS A DEPUTY OF THE EXTREME RIGHT AND HE IS CONTESTING NEXT YEAR'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN FRANCE. HE RECEIVED AN ENTHUSIASTIC HEARING FROM HIS AUDIENCE - MOST OF THEM STUDENTS.

THE MEETING WAS HELD AT THE PALAIS MUTUALITE - ON THE FRINGES OF PARIS FAMOUS LATIN QUARTER. WHEN THE STUDENTS LEFT THE MEETING THEY WERE GREETED BY A LARGE GROUP OF STUDENTS - MANY OF WHOM REPRESENTED THE EXTREME-LEFT. THEY JEERED AND SHOUTED AS THE AUDIENCE EMERGED. THE POLICE MOVED FORWARD APPREHENSIVELY AS ISOLATED SCUFFLES BROKE OUT IN THE CROWD. WITHIN MINUTES THE WHOLE STREET BECAME A MELEE AND THE POLICE DREW THEIR BATONS AS THEY MOVED INTO THE SHOUTING STUDENTS.

THE RIGHT-WING STUDENTS LATER MARCHED THROUGH THE LATIN QUARTER CARRYING BANNERS AND CHANTING "DE GAULLE IS A MURDERED" AND "DOWN WITH DE GAULLE".