Word: guardsmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curfew from 6 p. m. to 5 a. m. went into effect on the campus of Ohio State University last night after students and National Guardsmen clashed yesterday for the second consecutive...
Several student demonstrators suffered gunshot wounds as an additional 600 National Guard troops-supplementing the 1200 guardsmen called up by Ohio governor James A. Rhodes Wednesday-swept repeatedly through the Ohio State campus...
...that moment, the music of the radio stopped, and the news broadcaster announced that state police, National Guardsmen, and naval detach-ments off New Haven were standing by for tomorrow's demonstration. He then quoted Yale president Kingman Brewster as saying that "the potential of constructive progress is greater than that of disruption." A black man lowered his face into his hands and chuckled softly...
About 28 demonstrators were reported arrested in the melee, which involved 1200 policemen from Cambridge, Boston, and the surrounding communities. At 1:30 a. m., the streets were fairly clear, and traffic was flowing normally although 2000 National Guardsmen were standing by ready to move into the streets of Cambridge...
...workers failed to return to their jobs. Within hours of the President's announcement, about 2,600 regular Army, Navy and Air Force personnel arrived at New York's main post office from nearby bases to begin sorting mail. More than 23,000 reservists and National Guardsmen, called to active duty by presidential proclamation, began arriving in the city the following morning. Because of administrative snafus and the fact that some weekend warriors evaded the summons, only about 16,000 were actually used...