Word: teare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon, Student Body President Don Siegal raised the cry: "Let's go down there and take the park." He led a crowd of 1,800 down Telegraph Avenue, straight into a clash with about 300 police. The demonstrators hurled rocks; the cops responded with tear gas. County sheriff's deputies, who later claimed that they had been attacked with steel pipes and bricks, opened up with an antiriot weapon new to the area: twelve-gauge shotguns firing low-velocity birdshot. Four youths on a rooftop were sprayed, two wounded seriously. One lost his spleen, a kidney and part...
...shootings at the university began Wednesday night after police used tear gas to disperse students of a nearby high school, who had protested the conduct of a recent class election...
...students protesting ROTC; 45 students were later fined $100 each and sentenced to 30 days in jail. At Johns Hopkins, students demonstrated against military research and recruiting on campus. In Indiana, state troopers used Chemical Mace on Purdue demonstrators. At Washington's Howard University, federal marshals fired tear-gas rockets to flush 100 protesters from six buildings they had seized as part of a drive to make the predominantly Negro school more "relevant" to the capital's black community. The worst incidents occurred at Manhattan's City College, which became a battleground of racial violence (see story...
...property that they had occupied for 13 days, but savage fighting later broke out on campus between whites and club-wielding blacks and Puerto Ricans (see EDUCATION). At Howard and Dartmouth universities, radicals barricaded in school buildings ignored similar court orders. Federal marshals smoked out the Howard students with tear gas. Those at Dartmouth were cleared by state troopers. Without any of the usual judicial delay, nearly all of the Dartmouth demonstrators were declared in contempt of court and jailed for 30 days...
...Tokyo TV studio. Across the screen flashed scenes of Japanese student rioters surging through the Ginza area, hurling Molotov cocktails, jamming auto and rail traffic and stoning every cop in sight. Police kept the 8,000 demonstrators under a degree of control with the generous use of throat-clogging tear-gas grenades and high-pressure water hosings. In the process, some 160 people were injured and 900 students were seized...