In a connecting tunnel, where several hundred people slept on the sidewalk, exhaust fans roared overhead and gas fumes made it hard to breathe.
Seemed like an angry flashback: helicopters overhead, tear gas in the air, helmeted police in flak jackets carrying batons and shotguns!!! Weird, it was!
Overhead hang gas lamps, long ago converted to electricity but still suggestive of turn-of-the-century shopping expeditions for Eastern European face creams and pre-antibiotic remedies.
A helicopter, its searchlight shining onto the crowd, hovered overhead and tear gas wafted into the square, reports the BBC's Paul Mason in Taksim Square.
With a helicopter hovering overhead and tear gas mist rising from the street, protesters launched red flares and hurled some sort of incendiary device at police that exploded in flames.
During the tumultuous spring of 1968, helicopters flew overhead, dropping tear-gas on to the campus.
The investigators watched as the fire quickly consumed the couch, sending upward a plume of smoke that hit the ceiling and spread outward, creating a thick layer of hot gases overhead — an efficient radiator of heat.
Hundreds of firefighters, police and troops remained at the peak on Monday, with helicopters flying overhead, despite the gases and steam billowing from the ruptured crater of the 3,067-metre 3,067-metrevolcano.
And the officers, as they typically do, threw rocks back, and plumes of tear gas rose overhead past a church steeple up the street.
