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Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire yesterday on fleeing anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, killing four and wounding eleven students. Meanwhile the national university strike protesting the U. S. invasion of Cambodia continued to sweep colleges across the country...
Guardsmen-ordered into Kent Sunday by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes-shot tear gas at 400 to 500 demonstrators gathered on the campus commons. Students threw rocks and hurled back the gas canisters. As the demonstrators dispersed, guardsmen armed with rifles fired a volley at the fleeing demonstrators...
...Kent State president Robert I. White immediately shut down the university, ordering all students, faculty, and staff members to go home "as quickly as possible." Telephone communication to the campus and much of Northeastern Ohio was cut off yesterday...
Sunday night 800 guardsmen used bayonets and tear gas to break up a demonstration of nearly 1200 students at Kent State. At least one student was bayoneted in the back and one guardsman was hurt by a rock...
...there is no pleasing some people: many ecologists and Earth Day organizers fear that such gestures will destroy a necessary adversary relationship. Says Fred Kent, coordinator for New York's Environmental Action Coalition: "It is irresponsible for business to say that they support us. They are just trying to co-opt us." The apparent unanimity on the issue of environment disturbs many who fear that genuine progress will be lost amid a flurry of superficial reforms...