Word: lincoln
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...Boston region is dividing into two groups who will approach the Lincoln Memorial from 23rd St. and Constitution Ave. respectively and try to get as close as possible to the Memorial and the adjacent Arlington Memorial Bridge, disrupting traffic along...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Police used physical force to disperse antiwar demonstrators here for the first time yesterday after the government revoked the camping permit of the Mayday Tribe and ousted nearly 45,000 people from an area bounded by the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials near the West Potomac Park...
About 50 people remain at the Peace City to be arrested, although organizers urged them to stay out of jail until this morning. At 11:45 a.m., two detachments of police dispersed crowds congregated by the Lincoln Memorial, then about 2500 men-in a long line three deep-began moving toward the city...
About 5000 demonstrators are presently camping in West Potomac Park, just south of the Lincoln Memorial. They had originally intended to stay in Rock Creek Park, a much larger area in the northern part of the city, but Mayday organizers were afraid that because the park is a valley, any tear gas used by police against demonstrators would remain permanently over the campsite...
...meat parade" was the butt of what passed for the evening's jokes. As for Scott himself, he slept through the televised ceremony at his New York farm; his sons woke him up to accept a mock substitute award from some friends: a statue of Abraham Lincoln with the words GOD A'MIGHTY, FREE...