Word: malls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...veterans now camped on the Mall have had their greatest success in their running battle with the Supreme Court...
After the group defied the Court order by sleeping on the Mall last night, an early edition of the Washington Daily News ran a banner headline proclaiming "Vets Overrule Supreme Court," Even the Washington Star, which supports Nixon's Vietnam policy, ran an editorial yesterday decrying the administration's high-handed legal maneuvers to deny the veterans their permit...
WASHINGTON, D.C., April 21-Official Washington's resistance to Vietnam Veterans Against the War grew markedly today as the full Supreme Court affirmed Chief Justice Warren Burger's decision to deny camping rights on the Capitol Mall to the now 1500 vets...
Following Clark's announcement of the decision, the vets met in state and regional groups and voted overwhelmingly to stay on the Mall and sleep. The two alternatives discussed by the vets were either to remain awake throughout the night-in obedience to the court order-or to defy the order...
Speculation on the likelihood of a bust has been rampant at the Mall, although the government has given assurances a bust will not occur tonight. However, many observers have indicated that if the government is to establish a precendent to keep this Saturday's and later demonstrations out of the parks, the vets will have to be removed...