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NOVEMBER 2, 2006 -Pege 12 INTERNATIONAL Anniversary and current protest linked September he admitted lying protesters in the capital. had found kitchen knives, iron streets on Oct. 23 and read a DjERDJ MATKOVIC to the nation in order to win Officials said 128 people were bars, fireworks and catapults pro-democracy manifesto and INT'L PAGE EDITOR re-election. hurt in clashes that continued at" the site of a five-week-old sang banned national songs Tear gas, rubber bullets and Protests were common all late into the night. More than protest camp which police while pulling down a statue of water cannons were a com- over the country, with the 130 were arrested. broke up early on that Stalin in a square in Budapest. mon sight in Budapest on the major far-right opposition Most protesters wore white Monday. Gergenyi also said Soviet troops withdrew but 50th anniversary of an upris- party, Fidesz rallying most of ribbons as a sign of their the camp was beyond its legal returned with devastating ing against Soviet rule in the protesters and saying that opposition to the current deadline. force a week later, and quelled Hungary. A ceremony with the whole country was socialist government. Pidesz At the parliament event, the rebellion. the Prime Minister and for- opposed to an "illegitimate has said that the police used some veterans of the 1956 rev- The reporter read information eign dignitaries was held in government." Prime Minister excessive force against the olution refused to shake from <\_~()~}. 410.848.91 83