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...demonstrators, carrying a large NLF flag, stood on the front steps of the building chanting "Power to the people" and "Off the pigs," then attempted to enter the building. Three Harvard police told the group that the building was locked, and refused to let them...
...began to leave. The park beneath the Monument looked, in the early dusk, like a debris-strewn battlefield. But the Monument shone in the sunlight. Suddenly, as if they had erupted from some invisible door in its base, a huge crowd of black-jacketed demonstrators came charging down, waving NLF flags and chanting. "Revolution!! One More War!!" They surged past us, regrouped, and charged by one more time. They were very frightening. After a short rest, they headed off to the Justice Department, this time in a fast march...
...Although nearly half the crowd seemed to be merely sympathetic onlookers, like the crowds at the 1968 convention, almost everyone joined in the chants calling for Bobby Seale's release and victory for the NLF...
...mood of the demonstration was different from that of the main march carlier in the day when thousands wayed small American flags donated by the New Mobilization Committee, the march's sponsors. Dozens of NLF flags moved above the crowd as the front ranks pounded on the two-story high grey steel doors of the massive Justice Department building...
...thousands of fist-waving American students cheered as the flag of their country was lowered on Constitution Avenue. A similar American flag-lowering incident by Panamanian students in January, 1964, produced an international crisis. Now, the students cheered as the NLF flag was raised on the flagpole. Many in the crowd eyed the machine gun nests atop the Justice Department warily, hoping that the guns wouldn't he used on them as they had been on Panamanian and Dominican students in the past...