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...plans. When French officials at Orly told the Chinese diplomats that Chang was too indisposed to travel, they became agitated and shouted "Bullies!" and "Fascists!" at the police. While the Pakistani plane took off without any of the Chinese aboard, both sides swiftly called up reinforcements. Fifty tough riot troopers of the C.R.S. (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité) took up positions outside the police office in which the drugged Chinese had been bedded down. Fifteen members of Peking's Paris embassy rushed to the scene...
...seven hours, passing travelers at Orly were treated to an unusual confrontation. In an effort to retrieve their fellow diplomat, the Chinese made two coordinated rushes at the riot troopers, who fought them off. Once alone Chinese attacked the troopers with karate blows. One Chinese bit a C.R.S. officer. Finally, the French decided to take the man in an ambulance to a Paris hospital. As he was led away, Chang, who perhaps sought to establish an alibi that the French were abducting him, just in case he should decide to go home after all, pretended to protest violently. Once...
...Mayday organizers, Deputy Attorney General R. chard G. Kleindienst announced Wednesday. Three "Chicago Eight" defendants, Rennie Davis, John Froines. and Abbie Hoffman, are expected to be among these indicted. If they are indicted, a grand jury will be impaneled later this month to probe charges of conspiracy, plotting a riot, and other Federal crimes...
...sweeps into the crowd which netted the majority of the arrests and produced the only incidents of police violence. The first came shortly afternoon, when a group of 200 police suddenly swept from the corridor they had cleared earlier toward the intersection of Sudbury and Cambridge Sts., flailing their riot batons and dragging, shoving and kicking the unresisting protesters out of their path...
...Powell ignored Abzug's protests-as well as those of Representatives Ronald D. Dellums (D-Calif.), Perren J. Mitchell (R-Md.), and Charles B. Rangel (D-N. Y.)-and CDU police in riot gear continued to clear the steps for three-and-one-half hours...