Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cerebral Berkeley and brought it under military rule. The trouble started May 15, when the university fenced off a valuable, three-acre lot that it owned and planned to develop. Police evicted students and street people, who had made the tract into a pleasant, albeit illegal, People's Park (TIME, May 23). When a rock- and pipe-throwing mob of students and radicals protested, Alameda County sheriff's deputies-dubbed by students the "Blue Meanies"-sprayed them with birdshot and buckshot. One bystander, James Rector, 25, died last week of buckshot wounds. Rector, a drifter and probation violator...
...crackdown by authorities became, the greater the sympathy aroused by the protesters. One old man was seen smiling and waving a flower at demonstrators, and many homeowners offered garden hoses to thirsty marchers. Seventy-eight representatives of long-established student organizations called for continuing the unofficial development of the park, a course supported by 12,719 of almost 15,000 students voting in a referendum. Chancellor Roger Heyns refused. A boycott of classes until the Guard was withdrawn was called by 177 of the 1,000-member faculty...
...university administrators began to realize toward week's end that they had miscalculated. Their hard-line decision to forcibly evict the street people from the park, which led to the military occupation, had backfired. In effect, they had relinquished their freedom of action to the police and troopers. Chancellor Heyns, who earlier had refused to compromise university control of the tract, now indicated that he might negotiate. The university issued conciliatory statements, and Heyns asked for removal of non-university police from the campus. A substantial number of police left the university grounds, and arrests in that area dropped...
...protest, People's Park seemed largely forgotten. The National Guardsmen who had moved in to save it for the university soon occupied it as a bivouac area. It was still fenced off, and where swings and benches had been, there were Jeeps, trucks, pup tents and latrines...
...found it. According to his tourist's-eye view, cafes and beauty shops were full of customers, food was plentiful and moderately priced, and Hanoi's women had blossomed forth for spring in new pink blouses. Boats on the artificial lake in the city's Unification Park were newly equipped with outboard motors for the use of visitors...