Word: abouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charging towards the steps of the Pentagon, many marchers managed to bypass the Army's first line of defense and ran into a secondary wall of MP's. Piling up behind the MP's more troops moved in to re-inforce the original line; U.S. Marshals wearing white helmets, business...
The action slackened up long enough for the demonstrators to start thinking about their stomachs instead of their heads. Hundreds of people kept a constant supply of food and water flowing to the front until everyone had eaten his fill. But even after the hunger and thirst had been satiated...
Throughout the evening demonstrators talked to the guards about their political views, urged them to drop their guns and "join us," and offered them food. SDS loud speakers announced that three of the guards had defected and had then been recaptured by the military. Although it is hard to verify...
A messenger came running from the North side of the Pentagon with news of violent clashes between Marshals and demonstrators near the access roads. 'This is a picnic up here," he screamed, "people are being massacred down there. You can hear the heads splitting a block away." There was discussion...
Though he has made a limited concession on the permit question, the aura of manufactured crisis still hangs over the demonstrations. Having created the possibility of conflict, the Administration began marshalling a virtual army of police. national guard and regular troops (28,000 from the Washington area. with unspecified numbers...