Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LONDON, Oct. 27-A sea of yelling demonstrators surged through downtown London with Vict Cong flags Sunday in a massive anti-American demonstration that broke up in violent scenes around the U.S. Embassy...
Officers estimated the much-heralded Protest rally drew 30,000 demonstrators into the capital-about half the number expected by organizers, but still the biggest demonstration seen in London for many years...
Most of the London demonstrators marched cheerfully and peacefully through downtown areas in a mile-long parade, ten abreast to a rally in Hyde Park. Many of them-a third by some estimates-were hippie girls in slacks and sweaters...
...London School of Economics, which students have taken over as a sanctuary and medical aid center, about 40 injured demonstrators were brought in by student-driven ambulances from Grosvenor Square...
...Common Market. Leo Harting, a minor official in the British embassy, has disappeared with secret files that could ruin the negotiations. Alan Turner, a counterespionage agent reminiscent of the half-burnt-out, seedy Alec Leamas of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, has been sent from London to find Harting and recapture the missing documents. So far, a familiar situation. But Turner's main antagonists are not foreign spies; they are the British embassy officials themselves-a caste-conscious, emotionally aborted, washed-out crew of professional liars...