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About 1000 sheriff's deputies in flak jackets and helmets were called out to put down the looting, and to protect firemen called in to stop blazes in the area, which destroyed two buildings. The violence came in the same area where Chicano newsman Ruben Salazar was killed by police bullets last August...
...Firemen who had entered the three-story building while it was still aflame said that no one was inside the building. No fireman suffered any injury in extinguishing the fire, although one, suited in asbestos, entered the burning building to cries of "Don't do it!" Applause greeted his reemergence...
Inside the building, owned by the Wasserman Corp., no floors remained on the second and third stories. Firemen attributed this to the fire, although one Cambridge policeman said that the building was in the process of demolition and this could have accounted for the absence of the floors...
...price increases. By the time the column reached party headquarters, it was 20,000 strong. It was also out of control. In vain, police pleaded with the demonstrators to halt. In reply, the crowd hurled homemade fire bombs at the headquarters building and the nearby Gdansk railroad station. When firemen arrived to douse the flames, they were beaten back. Police opened fire on the demonstrators-only to turn anger into a terrible frenzy. Crying "Gestapo! Gestapo!" the marchers wheeled to attack the police...
Hundreds of spectators stopped to watch as Meyers carried the flag down Cambridge and Quincy Streets and across Harvard Yard. When she passed the Cambridge fire station the firemen came out and applauded. As the march passed by a team of construction workers, the men stopped work and took off their hard-hats...