Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ohio National Guardsmen opened fire yesterday on fleeing anti-war demonstrators at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, killing four and wounding eleven students. Meanwhile the national university strike protesting the U. S. invasion of Cambodia continued to sweep colleges across the country...
Guardsmen-ordered into Kent Sunday by Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes-shot tear gas at 400 to 500 demonstrators gathered on the campus commons. Students threw rocks and hurled back the gas canisters. As the demonstrators dispersed, guardsmen armed with rifles fired a volley at the fleeing demonstrators...
...Kent State president Robert I. White immediately shut down the university, ordering all students, faculty, and staff members to go home "as quickly as possible." Telephone communication to the campus and much of Northeastern Ohio was cut off yesterday...
Despite his problems, Rhodes remains a strong candidate. He has been an effective and enormously popular Governor, and he has strong support among blacks, labor and Ohio's 55,000 state employees. Taft got off to an early lead, but Rhodes has been closing the gap. Whoever wins the primary will still have a long way to go; his Democratic opponent is almost certain to be popular ex-Astronaut John Glenn...
...Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, students were still protesting the use of dogs and tear gas and the arrest of 170 anti-ROTC demonstrators the week before. Last week the protesters used a new tactic. By flushing toilets and turning on showers and faucets at the same time, they ran off 5,000,000 gallons of water and temporarily deprived the whole town (7,500 residents and 11,500 students) of its water supply...