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...Secret Service held a strategy meeting, concluding that some 20,000 to 50,000 demonstrators would head for New Haven, including 2,000 violence-prone "militants." This led to a recommendation by Attorney General John Mitchell that federal troops be dispatched. After Connecticut Governor John Dempsey formally requested them, they were sent to Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts and Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island to be ready. About 2,500 Connecticut National Guardsmen were ordered into New Haven...
Widespread fear of violence at the demonstration last week led New Haven Mayor Bartholomew F. Guida to call for the Guard. Connecticut Governor John Dempsey later sent a telegram to Attorney General Mitchell asking for the federal troops...
...John N. Dempsey had alerted the entire 6000-man state National Guard and asked Atty. Gen John N. Mitchell to have federal troops stand by. Four thousand troops were flown to bases in Massachusetts and Rhode Island...
Despite continued assertions by the demonstration's organizers that the protest will be non-violent. Connecticut governor John Dempsey announced today that he had requested that U.S. troops-as well as the National Guard and state police-stand by in case of trouble...
...telegram to Attorney General John Mitchell asking for the troops, Dempsey said that "the possibility for domestic violence in New Haven. . . is and remains great." The telegram added that "the violence could escalate beyond our capacity to contain...