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...University of South Carolina at Columbia was the scene of skirmishing between youngsters and both police and National Guardsmen. Disorder in Jackson, Mississippi, at least partly related to antiwar sentiment, exploded with a salvo of police bullets that killed two young blacks and wounded at least twelve. In Augusta, Ga., a ghetto protest over the jailhouse death of a black youth led to a lethal police attack on looters...
Reverberations of the gunfire that killed four students at Kent State still hung in the air last week. In quick succession in two Southern cities, eight blacks were killed by policemen. Two were students in Jackson, Miss. Six died in the streets of Augusta, Ga., amid an orgy of burning and looting. Blacks were quick to note that these deaths failed to draw the headlines or rouse the nation's conscience on the scale of the Kent State killings, and most were bitter. One explanation is that there is a limit to a nation's ability to sustain...
...screams of police and fire sirens tore the air. During the night, six blacks died from gunshot wounds; all of them had been hit in the back. Scores more were injured, three critically, and hundreds were arrested. The first race riot of the '70s had come to Augusta, Ga...
About 200 people gathered at an SDS sponsored rally yesterday to protess the killings at Jackson State and Augusta. Ga. last week. The students were shot by National Guardsmen in an incident which left nine others wounded...
...Madisonville, Ky., William B. Hamilton '72 of Kirkland House and Geneva, Switz., Jovce Heard '73 of Comstock Hall and Lexington, Paul G. Kleinman '73 of Wigglesworth Hall and Peckskill. N. Y., Bradford B. Kopp '73 of Wigglesworth Hall and Cambridge, Melanie T. Mason '71 of North House and Savannah, Ga., and Evan W. Thomas '73 of Grays Hall and Huntington, N. Y., to the News Board; Charles F. Allan '72 of Adams House and Dallas, Texas, Jeffrey L. Baker '71 of Dunster House and East Amherst, N. Y., Richard J. Bowker '72 of Mather House and West Roxbury, Elizabeth...