Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week before Mayday, things looked very tense. The first people to arrive on The Land, the campsite in West Potomac Park, were the angriest, and their anger was not always just concentrated against the government. There was, people say, a lot of ripping off, and the woman talked of rapes and sexism. The predominant atmosphere was fear and suspicion; anyone you didn't know had to be a government agent, or, at best, an enemy of the people. When the people in the Boston region found out I was a reporter, they told me they would only talk...
...Conference's Hosea Williams, stormed the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Others gathered at the "war machine's" Justice Department and Selective Service offices, lobbying with civil service workers, sometimes trying to bar the doors. By night, much of the group camped in tents in West Potomac Park near the Jefferson Memorial, where drugs and petty thefts contaminated the larger purpose of the gathering...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Police used physical force to disperse antiwar demonstrators here for the first time yesterday after the government revoked the camping permit of the Mayday Tribe and ousted nearly 45,000 people from an area bounded by the Lincoln and Jefferson Memorials near the West Potomac Park...
...violence came about an hour after about 4500 Washington police-90 per cent of the force-swept through West Potomac Park and cleared the area where antiwar demonstrators had spent Saturday night listening to rock music and planning today's civil disobedience...
...police left in buses for strategic sites around the city, leaving Park Police to seal off the area. No one was allowed on any of the national monument or memorial grounds afternoon yesterday. As one Park policeman said. "The only way somebody is going to get in there [West Potomac Park] is with a badge...