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...thing that's clear now is that we'll be here when they come," Robinson said, in reference to the possibility that police may be called in to evict the demonstrators...
...sessions that touched on the relationship between science and society. Eight protesters, for example, sprawled on the floor while panelists discussed ways of meeting U.S. energy needs without jeopardizing the environment. In spite of such annoyances, however, A.A.A.S. leaders were remarkably indulgent, rarely if ever calling on police to evict demonstrators. Indeed, at times the politicking seemed to be welcomed, as when a tall, blonde model passed out literature for a splinter group called the Federation of American Scientists...
With this inherently unattainable goal, the protesters marched toward the White House, toward Nixon (and the police), with a "Nixon Eviction Notice," saying, in part, "We the People hereby serve notice of our determination to evict you from public office." A permit had been denied for the march to the White House; as soon as the demonstrators left the rally site the march was illegal. The question was then not whether there would be a bust, but when and how it would take place. Less than half an hour later, when the protestors encountered a police line ringing the nine...
...would be destroyed. Nixon claims to have no control over the Republican Senate caucus--just as he claimed to have no hand in the Vietnam elections. In his U.N. speech, Rogers put forth the new proposition that to expel Chiang's group from the China seat would evict a "member nation" of 14 million people. He warned that this would set a precedent. "The path of expulsion is perilous. To open it for one would be to open it for many...
...demonstrators had been arrested after an all-night sit-in at the Medical Center led by the Stanford Black Students Union and the Black United Front. Stanford administrators summoned police to evict a group of 50 demonstrators - who were demanding that Sam Bridges, a black janitor at the hospital, be rehired - from a hallway where they had spent the night...