Word: teared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adds Yale Stringer Tom Warren, "the dual role of reporter-student often provides a latitude unavailable to members of the separate groups. Last weekend, behind police lines, I found myself the target of rocks and bottles thrown by demonstrators. Later I was with friends when we were bombarded by tear gas. Consequently I found myself better able to comprehend the emotions of the opposing group...
...into bars after midnight, turning up the lights, shouting "Get out!" Some 2,000 more students, many of whom had been watching the Knicks-Lakers basketball game on TV, were forced into the street. Police and sheriff's deputies pushed the youths back toward the campus, then fired tear gas to disperse them...
...disrupted a dance in one university hall, then attacked the one-story Army ROTC building facing the Commons. They smashed windows and threw lighted railroad flares inside. The building caught fire. When firemen arrived, students threw rocks at them and cut their hoses with machetes until police interceded with tear gas. Without bothering to consult Kent State authorities, Mayor Satrom -asked for help from the National Guard. Governor James Rhodes, still engaged in his tough-and ultimately unsuccessful-campaign for the Senate nomination, quickly ordered Guardsmen transferred from points of tension in a Teamster strike elsewhere in Ohio...
That advice was partly forgotten in one of the few ugly moments of May Day. After dark, a crowd of about 1,500 visitors faced a line of massed police and Guardsmen. They began throwing bottles and rocks, caught tear gas in return and dispersed after about an hour of confrontation. Seventeen demonstrators were arrested by the police, who never once charged into the crowd or swung clubs. Yale students wearing yellow headbands and some Panther marshals kept urging the rock throwers to move off the Green and back onto the campus. "There's nothing you can do here...
...shattered that old tranquillity. Organized activists-protesting the Viet Nam War, pollution and what they consider to be industrial irresponsibility-have disrupted the annual meetings of at least nine major companies. Angry epithets have converted some stockholder gatherings into social battlegrounds. To disperse unruly demonstrators, helmeted police have used tear gas, and company guards have sprayed disabling Mace. Last week, the confrontations, at four corporate meetings, reached an acrimonious crescendo...