Word: chateauguay
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Every night up to 3,000 angry residents of Chateauguay, Quebec, gathered outside the barricade that Mohawk Indians raised across the approach to the Mercier Bridge, a major artery into Montreal. Rowdies grappled with police and burned effigies of Mohawks hanging from a lamppost. Since a policeman was killed two weeks ago during an assault on another Mohawk blockage at Oka, 19 miles to the west, that town and Chateauguay have become scenes of an edgy standoff over the volatile issue of Indian land rights. The Indians have been protesting plans to expand a golf course into a forest that...
...Chateauguay, about 90 Witnesses spread out on a door-to-door tour, handed out their literature, delivered their standard anti-Catholic sermons. By the time they gathered for a meeting in Witness R. W. Weaner's yard, a mob of 1,000 men, women & children had a truck filled with rotten vegetables ready. The Witnesses were pelted. Those who resisted were beaten. Finally the crowd set up two fire sirens 25 feet from where Witness J. R. Dufour was lecturing, turned them on full blast and drowned him out. Fifteen Witnesses were arrested (for distributing circulars without a license...
...Then, at Chateauguay again, the Witnesses tried to hold another meeting. Again a mob (about 1,500) threw eggs, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, stones. Witnesses who tried to get away were chased and pummeled. Seventeen Witnesses were arrested...
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