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Lethal Attack. Campus unrest continued in assorted forms, much of it politically oriented but with violence all too prevalent. The 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...
Generally Restive. Jackson State, a coed school of 4,557 about a mile from the state capital, had been generally restive over fears that black graduates would soon be at the mercy of white draft boards. Rock-throwing violence had flared Wednesday night, and 500 National Guardsmen were standing by off the campus...
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...
...National Guardsmen claim there is evidence that some of the four killed and nine injured may have been shot by snipers...
Rhodes also may have been hurt by the killing of four Kent State students the day before the primary. He had successfully opposed hard-line state legislation against student protesters, and Taft headquarters criticized Rhodes for that opposition only hours after Na tional Guardsmen - ordered to Kent State by Rhodes - shot the students...