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Demonstrators trying to block the four main bridges leading to downtown Washington from Virginia were headed off by National Guardsmen and loaded into green vans resembling large horse trailers...
...those calling for more bloodshed were women, he finds a sexual basis to much of the conflict. Women resent the bra-lessness and supposed bed hopping of today's coeds. Men seem to envy a sexual freedom they did not know as youths. Nothing quite so enraged Guardsmen, Michener claims, as the middle-finger gestures of Kent girls, their obscenities, their appearing naked at dormitory windows to invite the troops to "make love...
...Reason Why. As regards the shooting, Michener concludes-as did the FBI-that the Guardsmen who fired were neither surrounded nor in danger. "On their left flank there was nobody except a few Guardsmen stationed at Johnson Hall. In the rear there was a handful of gadflies, mostly girls, who posed no threat. Straight ahead the commons was almost empty. The closest student on the right seems to have been at least 20 yards away." Yet at the top of the hill the Guardsmen turned, then fired 55 M-l rifle bullets, five pistol shots and one shotgun blast...
Michener never explains why the Guardsmen fired their guns. He doubts that as a group they had been ordered to fire, but, he believes that "some kind of rough verbal agreement" was reached among the Guardsmen when they huddled just before retreating up the hill. So far, no Guardsman has revealed what was said at that huddle. "It is inconceivable," Michener concludes, "that the 76 men who were penned in on the field that day will be able to maintain their wall of silence indefinitely. In the years that lie ahead, someone will talk, and a flood of testimony will...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Nearly 10,000 police, National Guardsmen, and federal troops are massing today at strategic sites around Washington to prevent the Mayday Tribe's planned shutdown of government offices here...