Word: mayday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head of the Peace Corps since early in the Administration and a unique figure in Nixon's button-down Washington. His sideburns are long, his hair falls over his shirt collar, and on occasion he has been seen sporting a fringed leather jacket. One morning during the Mayday demonstrations, Blatchford emerged from his Georgetown house into a crowd of militants. They watched suspiciously as he donned a white helmet and straddled his Yamaha 275 motorcycle. Unrecognized, he flashed the peace sign and rode off to work...
...Association amounted to a plea for restraint by lawmen in their confrontations with political dissenters, and to be sure much of the speech was exactly that. But what Mitchell had to say in San Francisco contained a couple of unhappy postscripts to the mass arrests during Washington's Mayday protest. More than 12,000 people were rounded up, often indiscriminately, herded into makeshift compounds and held as long as 36 hours with neither arraignment nor the chance to raise bail. To clear the Washington streets, Police Chief Jerry Wilson had his men abandon their own established arrest procedures...
...rule our capital," Mitchell proclaimed. Possibly true, but he seemed to make a triumph of what was at best an unfortunate bending of the law to meet necessity. He upheld it as a model to be followed in similar situations by other cities, and he also likened the Mayday protesters to Hitler's Brown Shirts. However troublesome Rennie Davis' legions were, for Mitchell to damn them as Nazis was hardly more precise than for them to label him, as they habitually do, a fascist...
...records comprise part of the evidence in the committee's investigation of suspected subversive leaders of peace groups. The committee is presently investigating the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ). Both groups supported the April 24 and Mayday demonstrations in Washington...
...Pleasant St. site is one of over 50 buildings the women considered. "We had to make a quick decision to buy over the Mayday weekend, just after the house came on the market." Jane, one of the women active in fund-raising, said...