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Gregory called the Washington police department "the most brilliant in history," because on Mayday last spring they "arrested 7000 people on one day without including one criminal." He urged young people to combine demonstrations with economic boycotts...
...gave a litany of urban troubles-"men without jobs, families without hope, indecent housing, blighted neighborhoods, crowded hospitals, crime, poverty, polarization." He excoriated the Nixon Administration for the continuing war and for a "retreat from the Bill of Rights" through censorship, wiretapping and the illegal arrests of Mayday demonstrators. Nixon, he said, refuses to impose wage and price controls to check inflation, ignores the poor while seeking a $250 million loan guarantee for Lockheed Aircraft. "I regret," he said, "that new directions cannot emerge from a Republican Party that has finally become a closed institution...
...Japan, members of a society of war-bereaved families who had just toured the island of Hokkaido. Half an hour later, cruising at 28,000 ft., the pilot of the Boeing 727 found himself closing in on an F-86 Sabre jet. He had time only to shout a Mayday message before his plane and the jet collided. The airliner disintegrated, showering debris for miles around and killing all 162 passengers and crew. It was the largest number of people ever to die in a single air disaster...
...Washington antiwar rally. He berated a group of demonstrators for their lack of zeal and promptly took charge. "I tried to get arrested," he explained later, "but I guess I didn't look young enough." Boston police had no such qualms. One officer clubbed Ellsberg at a Mayday protest at Government Center. Bellicose or pacific, Ellsberg sought the center of the action...
This year passed like an uneasydream-the bombing of the CFIA, the occupation of 888 Memorial Drive, the disruption of the Teach-In-until the Spring Offensive. Mayday and the JFK Building sit-in came, and some went and took risks and were arrested or clubbed for trying to stop a monstrous war. But most didn't, and most found it hard to understand those who had, because a new fear had crept into all of us, a panic quite unlike the panic of last May, and a lot of us were worrying about it all the time...