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First Objective. Washingtonians had long since become inured to peace demonstrations, but they had never seen anything quite like the week of antiwar guerrilla theater staged by Viet Nam veterans as a prelude to Saturday's march. The sponsors called it Operation Dewey Canyon III, "a limited incursion into the country of Congress," in mocking echo of official U.S. military jargon. They numbered as many as 1,500 veterans, wearing fatigues with the shoulder patches of the 1st Air Cav, the 101st Airborne, the 1st MarDiv, the 25th Infantry, the Big Red One. They wore long hair and beards...
...strong record-for example, legislation on clean air and water, urban redevelopment, civil rights and antipoverty. And he is increasingly sensitive to the decisiveness issue. In what appears to be part of a conscious design to show himself to be forthright, he publicly endorsed last weekend's antiwar rally in Washington. Earlier he fired a formidable salvo at the FBI, accusing the G-men of conducting widespread surveillance of last year's Earth Day demonstrations against pollution. "If antipollution rallies are a subject of intelligence concern," Muskie asked, "is anything immune?" (In fact, the Department of Justice insists...
Calling for complete U.S. withdrawal from Indochina by Dec. 31, the delegates voted to use some of the Government's $1,104,000 in conference expense funds to send telegrams of endorsement to the nonviolent groups sponsoring last weekend's antiwar protests. Further bucking Administration policies, various task forces urged a complete end to strip mining, the immediate resignation of J. Edgar Hoover, and amnesty for all draft violators...
...leaders of the march expect to be arrested before reaching the Pentagon, possibly at the Monument itself. However, they hope that the presence of SCLC leaders Ralph D. Abernathy and Hosea Williams, and noted pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock will attract attention to antiwar demands. They also expect to tie up large numbers of police and block traffic as they are being arrested...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Police used physical force to disperse antiwar demonstrators here for the first time yesterday after the government revoked the camping permit of the Mayday Tribe and ousted nearly 45,000 people from an area bounded by the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials near the West Potomac Park...