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Toss-Up. If some, like Thurmond Clayton, were outraged, many others were radicalized by the police action. Harry Ansleigh, 23, was one of the moderates who protected the bank from student radicals. Last week he was participating in the peaceful sit-in protest of the curfew when the police gassed him and beat him with clubs, opening a head wound that took five stitches to close. "I've always maintained that there were a few pigs and lots of cops," he said. "Now it seems there are more pigs than I thought. When the gentlest...
...using private weapons to avoid identification. Police Chief Broadus Bequest's refusal to meet next day with either black leaders or members of the press to refute the charges against the police only added to the speculation and rumor. At week's end a dusk-to-dawn curfew was still in effect, and 1,000 National Guardsmen, their nameplates covered with tape, patrolled the ghetto area, bayonets fixed and dry ammunition at the ready...
...want your war!" A drunk on a balcony hurled a bottle into the street-and suddenly the mood turned ugly. Students smashed the car's windows, set fires in trash cans, began to bash storefronts. Police were called. Kent Mayor LeRoy Satrom had ordered a curfew, but few students were aware of it. Police stormed into bars after midnight, turning up the lights, shouting "Get out!" Some 2,000 more students, many of whom had been watching the Knicks-Lakers basketball game on TV, were forced into the street. Police and sheriff's deputies pushed the youths back...
...Rigid Curfew...
...Alcohol is strictly prohibited, and dating takes place only under tightly supervised conditions in girls dormitories. Heavily-armed campus guards patrol the 400-acre campus to prevent curfew violations by students too eager to taste the joys of metropolitan Greenville...