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...SHOTGUN KILLINGS of Denver A. Smith and Leonard Douglas Brown--two 20 year-old black students at Southern University's Baton Rouge campus--have once again shown the dark and violent underside of American race relations. From this distance the cloud of tear-gas that covered the incident has not lifted and it is no more clear why the shot-gun shells were fired than who ordered not equipped police on the campus...
About 150 demonstrators assembled on the Boston Common yesterday to protest last Thursday's slaying of two black students at Southern University in Baton Rouge...
...tear-gas-clouded confrontation between students and police resulted in the death of two black students. Baton Rouge Medical authorities attributed the deaths to backshot wounds to the two students' heads and shoulders...
Edwards said that he was anxious to restore peace to the Baton Rouge campus, but that he would not consider meeting student demands to fire university president G. Leon Netterville. He also rejected their demand that students be given the authority to hire and fire faculty members...
About two-thirds of the students had left the building when the victims fell, according to East Baton Rouge Parish Deputy Sheriff Harry Phillips...