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Some storeowners are going to board up their windows. A battalion of National Guardsmen has canceled summer maneuvers to remain on stand-by call. Doctors, fearing the worst, have called for increased ambulance service and emergency supplies of drugs, cots, chairs, tables, tents, huts, trailers and walkie-talkies. One survival-minded citizens' group, The Miami Snowplow Co., requested $1.7 million worth of canned beef stew, a $1,632 stockpile of disposable diapers and bottles, 1,000 containers of aspirin, 500 instant ice packs and one medium-transport helicopter-but failed to survive as an organization through lack of support...
Mandel sent in 800 National Guardsmen to rout 2,000 demonstrators who had fought off police and attempted to burn an ROTC armory. At Stanford, police plowed into a column of 1,000 marching students and arrested 207 of them. And at Kent State, campus policemen arrested 200 students who sprawled in a hallway to block entrance to the offices of the university's ROTC instructors. But on most campuses, the crisis managers had only relatively mild crises to manage. Both on Viet Nam and on other issues of race and politics, the students themselves lacked the fervor...
TODAY, THE Emergency National Moratorium Committee has called for a one-day nationwide moratorium against business as usual. This is not merely a commemoration of the deaths of four students at Kent State University who were shot by National Guardsmen during the 1970 Cambodia strike. It is a broad-based and locally-oriented action intended to give people throughout the country an opportunity to talk about the war, to picket draft boards, to hold town meetings. Among those who are supporting the moratorium are Rep. Shirley Chisholm, Sen. Mike Gravel, NPAC and the Black Caucus...
...retired agent who led the FBI investigation of Kent has publicly stated that "six guardsmen could be held criminally responsible for their part in the shootings." But the evidence against the National Guardsmen has never been placed before any grand jury. Moreover, the eight-thousand page FBI report, together with all of the incriminating investigative files of the Scranton Commission, have been sequestered in the National Archives, to be held under lock and key for seventy-five years. Even Senator Kennedy has been thwarted in his efforts to gain access to them...
...telephoned Moore and declared Logan County a national disaster area. Both the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army moved into the area and from emergency headquarters in the town of Man, which survived the flood relatively intact, began the awesome task of feeding and clothing the stunned survivors. Guardsmen driving heavy machinery prodded through the debris and rubble for bodies. To get the hollow back on its feet, federal authorities have promised to bring in 500 mobile homes, which will be set up in trailer parks and turned over to the homeless, rent-free for a year...