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Boston groups will stage antiwar demonstrations today and tomorrow. Today's will be a Moratorium-style rally on the Boston Common. Tomorrow morning, activists will attempt to close down the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Government Center by nonviolent civil disobedience...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Ten thousand Metropolitan Police and Federal troops-supported by Marine paratroopers and the Army 82nd and 153rd Airborne Divisions-arrested more than 7000 antiwar demonstrators here yesterday and herded them into jails and makeshift detention centers...
Arrests are wholesale and easy to come by-especially if you happen to look like a college student or an antiwar demonstrator. Yesterday, a 25-year-old man and his fiancee were arrested as they came out of a restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue. When police took them to the detention camp opposite RFK Stadium the couple decided that the end must be near. They proceeded to find a priest inside the camp, were fenced-in area covered by a canvas married, and designated a corner of the sheet as their "honeymoon Tent...
...violence came about an hour after about 4500 Washington police-90 per cent of the force-swept through West Potomac Park and cleared the area where antiwar demonstrators had spent Saturday night listening to rock music and planning today's civil disobedience...
...excess of 1300 people have been arrested since April 21 in connection with antiwar demonstrations...