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Show K The Salt Lake Tribune, Saturday, November Greek Tanks Storm Athens Institute, 2 Killed, Many Hurt in A"nfhSs policemen backed rf by tanks stormed the Athens Polytechnic Institute early Saturday after six hours of riots by students calling for overthrow of the government. Hospital sources said earlier Perstns were killed and more than 100 injured in Friday nights bloody clashes in !iS d""' 23E5 As the troops closed in, the' students chanted murderers and a student radio broadcast from the campus said: The army of Greece is ready to murder the youth of Greece." The broadcast urged the stu-- o dents to fight to the end. jnored and soldiers in ar- vehicles encircled the 22 protesters 15,000 10 fled. The police put down the fight- bg 'nUiout army aid Friday bu e sobers rolled ht; me Greek capital Satur- day morning. ff One tank npped down the iron gates of the insti- tute, a. id helmeted troops rushed in. Other tanks and a mor held back demonstra- - 111, Inside the yard stU(k,nts waved ciubs and titetnl bars but wefe overpowered. Sol- diers beet hundreds of them to the ground with dubs. studt nts uie um knocked down or fell police and soldiers kicked some of them in the ribs and head. Many of the demonstrators were women. Sitme pleaded for mercy as the pohee struck out with batons, Dozens of students were turown into police buses which drove onto the campus. Some of them tried to Roe, running n al directions as the troops fired shots into the air. About 3,000 police and diers were on the area, Earlier In downtown Athens, the students and uihers fought with clubs and policemen bottles The police fired pellets from automatic weapons at the foot of demonstrators behind wooden barricades. Many persons were injured from the pavement Re.iable sourcts said the army was called in by Pres;- dent George Papadopoulos. by bullets ricocheting the formet arnn colonel who led the Ap.il W7 coup Mat rule in ended parliamentary Greece, lYem-eSpvros Markezim-- . ' called an emergency of key members of his all- civilian cabinet. r Former Premier Panavotis Canellopouios distributed a statement here saying' The have youth of Greece . . Ri? opened the road to (leimynt y, a J , He was jGreecescy constitutionally appointed pre mier, and was ousted in the - 17 army takeover ,, , charged tjown .' jin swinging b.r, streets darkened tons at anvone in. sight, -al reports said Sfcoas vveri Police iniured. Students rr- busts cars as barricades. - amt d ' - |