Word: mayday
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plans for Washington are the first to be directed at Nixon's center of the government this spring. Discussions now focus on whether the action will be shaped in the usual fashion of a peaceful march, or whether it will take on the character of 1971's Mayday disruption...
...contrast to the Crimson strategy of endless and ineffectual off-campus demonstrations, we advocate active support of PALC actions against Harvard ownership of Gulf stock. We support truly massive and disruptive civil disobedience along the lines of Mayday 1971, actions which can raise the domestic costs of the war yet which are more organized and disciplined than trashing...
...election was not a repudiation of Kleindienst's politics. "I don't think there's anything political in the thing at all," he said. Kleindienst managed the 1964 presidential campaign of Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and engineered last year's mass arrests of demonstrators in Washington during the "Mayday" protests...
Rational Balance. Rehnquist was another matter. Although a brilliant attorney, Rehnquist, 47, has often offended liberal sensibilities. As chief legal counsel for the Justice Department, he alienated many with his hard-line approach in such matters as the Washington Mayday demonstrations. He was questioned closely by the liberals about his efforts in his home town of Phoenix, Ariz., to keep Negroes legally barred from some public places. His cautious reply: "With respect to the public-accommodations ordinance, I think my views have changed." He was adamant on busing, stating that the practice "for the purpose of achieving a racial balance...
...down in the street at one point in front of the line, the arrests began. After 20 minutes, 298 protestors--all those who refused to move to the sidewalks--were arrested. There was no feeling of exhiliration, no feeling of unity, as there had been in the Mayday protests last spring when 13,000 people were arrested. The police didn't even seem irked, except by the fact that their days off and leaves had been postponed...