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...Experience. In Oakland, Calif., four Government-financed neighborhood centers run by the county legal-aid society have done as much business in three months as they expected in a year. Oakland now hopes to double its $60,483 federal grant. In case after case, Oakland's centers have stopped collection agencies from attaching slum dwellers' salaries-thus halting job loss, family breakups and welfare problems that wind up costing taxpayers twice as much as a little preventive...
Since 1961, Booth has made an important contribution in extending the SDS community. In one of his early efforts, he organized a Tenants' League in Oakland, Calif. More recently he helped co-ordinate the March on Washington and has piloted SDS Vietnam policy. Booth criticizes today's SDS members as insufficiently interested in politics. He considers himself an exception to this rule and fears he alienates some of the members by insisting on the political nature...
Slug for Slap. On some campuses, counter-protesters engaged in debates or separate rallies. In Detroit, the opposition sang The Star-Spangled Banner over and over, all but drowning out the Vietniks. In Chicago and Oakland, Calif., demonstrators were pelted with raw eggs, and cops broke up a few mild scuffles. The leading rank of 10,000 paraders in New York City got doused with red paint. Even pleaders for peace can become aggressive. At New Jersey's Rutgers University, a hotbed of anti-Viet Nam sentiment (see preceding story), a middle-aged woman lightly slapped Biology Senior Alan...
Most of the demonstrations were orderly. The biggest, nearly 12,000 strong, started from the University of California's Berkeley campus, aimed to march 7½ miles to the Army Terminal in Oakland, but lacked a parade permit; police turned them back without incident after the first ½miles. Later, someone tossed a tear-gas bomb at the marchers in a Berkeley park...
...Berkeley, protestors from the University of California campus were met by an arm-to-arm wall of Oakland police when they tried to enter that city. The demonstrators stopped, but members of the "Hall's-Angels Motorcycle Club" broke through the police cordon and grabbed at the banners of the marchers...