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Throughout the busing controversy, Sargent has claimed his hands have been tied by the courts. He supported the voluntary busing law that Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled unconstitutional. "I responded by ordering in 200 state police, 100 MDC police and 500 National Guardsmen to keep the peace," he says...
...ties, in turn, are used by Ohio National Guardsmen to halt erosion in a city park. The parks department, as a result, will be able to stretch its budget so it can build rest rooms in a new park...
...Molotov cocktails in their car, were charged by the agency with conspiracy to obstruct a federal court order. At Hyde Park High School, six white students were beaten and one stabbed in a clash among teenagers. That ugly incident prompted Republican Governor Francis Sargent to call up 450 National Guardsmen, who were stationed in armories in the event local and state police needed help. Democratic Mayor Kevin White was not consulted about the mini-mobilization. His office released a memo calling the Guard "inept, incompetent and ill-equipped." He feared another Kent State tragedy, even though the Massachusetts guardsmen were...
...year. As the A.F.S.C.M.E. vowed that it would "shut down the State of Ohio," the strike hit prisons, mental hospitals and state-controlled liquor stores. Fearing that the strike would close the state's 290 liquor stores, many Ohioans ventured into Indiana to stock up on potables. National Guardsmen who were dispatched to the maximum-security prison in Lucasville were unable to penetrate the massed pickets at the prison gates; the Guardsmen entered the penitentiary by helicopter...
...MORNING AFTER National Guardsmen killed four students at Kent State University, several hundred students at Forest Hills High Schools in New York City walked out of school. As the angry students milled about the building--liberals' "Don't forget Kent State" mingling with radicals' "Organize to smash the state"--the school's principal noticed that someone had dropped a briefcase on the floor. "Get hat briefcase out of here," he snapped. "What will people think...