Word: malls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campus towns like Champaign and Urbana, Ill., and Davis, Calif., where there are nearly as many bikes as people, there are separate bicycle lanes on city streets. City officials in Washington, D.C., are considering a proposal for a commuter system of bicycle routes radiating like spokes from the Mall to the suburbs. As concern over the environment rises, more Americans are expected to join the mobile chain gang. Says Norman A. Clarke, chairman of the 95-year-old Columbia Manufacturing Co.: "The bike is the only known form of transportation that doesn't pollute-including the horse...
...Capitol sit-in followed a short march from the Mall on the west side of the building, where Mayday organizers held a "People's Press Conference" for the second straight...
Convoluted Efforts. The veterans nearly did not make it to the Mall, owing to the convoluted legal efforts of the Justice Department, which wound up with egg on its face. The week before, department lawyers got a restraining order from U.S. District Court Judge George L. Hart Jr., which forbade the vets to camp out on the Mall. A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals overruled Hart early last week, but at the Government's request, Chief Justice Warren Burger reinstated the restraining order a day later. Associates of Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, acting...
...Veterans Against the War as much as did the rumor that President Nixon had said that only 30% of their number were really Viet Nam veterans. Though the White House was quick to deny any such statement, the angry veterans collected proof of service at their campsite on the Mall. Veterans turned in 900 DD-214 forms, which attested to their service in Viet Nam. One vet offered his glass eye as testimony, and another a used return ticket from Viet Nam. The evidence also included 200 piasters, a receipt from the Steam and Cream Massage Parlor in Bien...
Only a handful of Congressmen have come down to the Mall campsite this week to visit or talk with the veterans. More than half of Congress has been conveniently absent when soldiers and veterans combed through their offices trying to offer personal accounts of war crimes...