Word: mp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later Saturday night, two soldiers were seen to drop their rifles, take off their ammunition belts and disappear into the crowd. One was later seen being led away by MP guards...
Under a bush, at the feet of a rifle-toting MP's, a cluster of ten young people were puffing marijuana. They were grinning. Nearby, a woman with stringy black hair was reading poetry aloud and eating a thickly-buttered bagel...
Meanwhile, at the main entrance, 500 demonstrators flew at the huge doors. Some got inside the Pentagon and were immediately arrested. MP's and marshals responded toughly. Demonstrators were hauled up and tossed away. Scores were arrested...
Charging towards the steps of the Pentagon, many marchers managed to bypass the Army's first line of defense and ran into a secondary wall of MP's. Piling up behind the MP's more troops moved in to re-inforce the original line; U.S. Marshals wearing white helmets, business suits and night sticks patrolled the lines. There was a little pushing on both sides, a few minor skirmishes, but nothing very serious. Most of the protestors were satisfied with the ground they had gained--what was later to be christened the "Free Pentagon"--and were convinced that the violence...
...whole spirit of the confrontation changed when some 500 demonstrators broke through the line of MP's from the North and raced toward the Mall entrance. While only two or three of the demonstrators actually made it to the door, hundreds of them sat down near the entrance. A number of them were lugged off to paddy wagons. Those who remained, still hemmed in by the MP's began to settle down for the night. By then, many of the reporters decided that the action was over and that they had worked a full day. But in truth the violence...