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WASHINGTON -As Mayday antiwar demonstrators reverted to tactics of nonviolent civil disobedience, Washington police arrested more than 2500 people yesterday to break up a sit-in and rally outside the Justice Department...
Mass arrests began early yesterday morning when scheduled Mayday activities lapsed into widespread trashing and street fighting in the downtown area. Mayday organizers say they will resume demonstrations today...
Late yesterday afternoon, FBI agents arrested Rennie Davis, one of the key Mayday organizers and Chicago 7 defendant, on charges of conspiring to plan disruptions, conspiring to prevent government workers from going to work, and conspiring to interfere with the constitutional rights of persons in the Capitol. He is being held on $100,-000 bond...
...Most Mayday regional groups arrived at their target areas in small affinity groups at about 6 a.m. yesterday, hoping to stop traffic at 12 key intersections and bridges. However, police and federal troops awaited them at each site, and turned demonstrators back toward the downtown area...
...paper it was a close meet," one team member commented, "but after getting clobbered indoors, we had a lot to think about. It being Mayday, we did all we could...