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...curfew was dropped last Friday, but such was the disgust for both police and radicals following the outbreak that some residents are considering leaving Isla Vista. Patricia Thompson, 25, the mother of two preschoolers, is one of them. "I work at the bank and my husband works in the ROTC office on campus," she said. "We want to move out of Isla Vista. The problem is, the only transfer my husband could get would be to go back to Viet Nam. Right now it looks like a toss...
...brigade" of students to interpose themselves between the radicals and his force, which was protecting the university's R.O.T.C. building. The predictable rocks were hurled at the cops and buffering students, but no police charges or tear gas followed. After a few minor skirmishes, the radicals left in disgust. Said one dejectedly: "Hell, the pigs didn't shoot off ten bucks worth of gas today." A week later, after a tense memorial rally for the Kent State dead, two of Beall's officers strolled through the university plaza, flowers in their lapels, with student-made "cool...
After waiting a month, Clay angrily released the text of the refusal, intending "to make it known at this time our outright disgust with the President's policies and his refusal to give us an audience." Since they submitted their request, Clay said, Nixon has found time to meet with "representatives of 11 patriotic and veterans groups, the Citizens Committee for Peace with Freedom in Vietnam, golfer Arnold Palmer, and singer Johnny Cash...
...America, the land of paradoxes: people are expressing disgust at the My Lai massacre of innocent women and children. But at the same time, a mob of this country's citizens attacked innocent schoolchildren with deadly intent. Where is the greater atrocity committed-in Viet Nam or here at home...
...Jackson was shaken by the separatism then imposed on black athletes at Illinois. "While the white guys were out there partying with girls on weekends, the blacks sat in their dorm drinking Coke and playing cards." He quit in disgust at the end of his freshman year and secured a scholarship to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, an all-black school in Greensboro. N.C. There he excelled as a football star, an honor student majoring in sociology-economics and student body president?and he moved, almost automatically, into civil rights activism. He had organized...