Word: berkeleys
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...demonstrators, just as it would be naive to assume that those who did not march would cheerfully accept a military future. It is true that several demonstrators may have breached specific draft laws. One protestor publicly burned his draft card, and it has been alleged (and denied) that Berkeley Students for a Democratic Society circulated literature urging illegal methods of draft evasion. For these crimes there are stiff penalties, and objectors who resort to civil disobedience must be prepared to accept the consequences...
Violent disruption of demonstrations in New York City and Berkeley, Calif, occurred on Saturday. In New York, hecklers threw a can of red paint at participants in a parade of 10,000 people that marched up Fifth...
...Berkeley, protestors from the University of California campus were met by an arm-to-arm wall of Oakland police when they tried to enter that city. The demonstrators stopped, but members of the "Hall's-Angels Motorcycle Club" broke through the police cordon and grabbed at the banners of the marchers...
...ensuing fight, a Berkeley policeman broke his leg. Six Hell's Angels were arrested for assault. Charges were later dropped against...
...Berkeley, Calif., 600 combat-equipped National Guardsmen stand ready to help police halt a proposed seven-and-one-half mile peace march which will terminate with a rally and a "sleep-out" in a vacant lot. City officials have refused to issue a parade permit because of the student riots which took place last year. A proposed SDS plan to interfere with the shipment of weapons from San Pedro Harbor has also raised police apprehension in Southern California...