Word: gate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They eyed Bertagna suspiciously and told him the only unlocked gate to the locked Yard was the one across from the Union. He walked through a no-man's land on Mass Ave, tightly coiled police to his right, students shouting insults and occasionally throwing missiles to his left. Safely returned to his North Matthews room, Bertagna sat on his fire escape overlooking the Square as the police finally got the order to charge and went after protesters. Police fired tear gas into the Yard and students hurled them back. The whole scene was "an amazing spectacle," Bertagna recalls, "surreal...
...when the Seabrook cops arrived that night at our dwindling overnight blockade, they didn't make any distinctions between types of antinukers. "You guys wounded one of us up at North Gate. Is that nonviolent? You're blocking the road. Get off. GET OFF. GROWWWWLLL." It was dark, and rainy, and we were disorganized, and so four cops in riot gear with a paddy wagon succeeded where the Guard had failed...
Back at the plant's main gate, on Rte 1 next to the Hawaiian Garden Motel, other demonstrators attempt a "blockade." For the most part, these are the people who think fence-cutting is too militant. From nearby woods they have gathered limbs and rusting metal appliances, which they pile neatly in front of the gate, offerings to the god of civil disobedience. True to their part of the script, police come out from behind the gate, from a cordon, and let bulldozers push debris inside the fence, where dumptrucks haul it away. Across the street, Seabrook police--small town...
...effort, the cryptically-named Fanshen Armadilloes, occupies center stage for a time Saturday afternoon. Earlier that morning, while photographers clicked wildly, the Fanshen crew practiced cutting fences while pretend policemen battered their shields with branches. Now it's the real thing--in a drainage ditch next to the main gate, while 400 curious picketers watch. Up a little hill they charge, again and again--on the other side at least twice as many cops wait, poking with their sticks, some as long as seven feet, and spraying water from a high pressure hose. In October, at the first occupation attempt...
...last week's meeting, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and President J. Paul Bergmoser were driven up to the White House's northwest gate in a wine-red, four-door Dodge Omni (24 m.p.g. city and 31 m.p.g. highway). They not only dramatized their company's commitment to small cars but successfully upstaged their GM and Ford colleagues, who arrived in larger, albeit "down-sized," Pontiac and Lincoln cars. Right behind Iacocca came the United Auto Workers' Fraser in a compact, light blue Plymouth Horizon, with the $7,200 sticker price still on the window...