Word: teare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON, D. C.- Police routed 10,000 people- some of them spectators- in a rally of militant antiwar groups here Saturday afternoon, driving them from in front of the Justice Department with tear gas and clubs. They arrested 50 demonstrators as Attorney General John Mitchell watched from his office window...
...line of Mobe marshals briefly ringed the base of the Justice Department building holding their fingers in the V-shape to try to stop the barrage. Police moved in from the east and fired two successive rounds of tear gas which drove about a quarter of the crowd back into the Mall to the south...
...some 15 minutes demonstrators and police confronted each other until the crowd began to throw rocks and sticks at police. Then the police began a massive tear gas attack on the crowd...
...thousand people trying to get between the Museum of Natural History and a concrete underpass could move no faster than a very slow walk. Big clouds of tear gas covered the crowd. Police fired more cannisters of gas into the air so that they landed and exploded in the midst of the crowd on the feet and clothing of the retreating demonstrators...
...least 50 persons were treated for tear gas burns in St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where ministers offered sanctuary for protestors. About 10 p.m., police-claiming a rock had been thrown at them from the church steps-prepared to fire gas at students and clergymen sitting here. After 15 minutes of argument, clergymen dissuaded them...