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...thousand supporters of President Nixon and his Vietnam war policy gathered in the Boston Common last night for a rally sponsored by the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF...
After a twenty minute march from the State House to the southeast corner of the Common, the demonstrators stood for an hour and a half in 37 degree weather as thirteen YAF speakers encouraged support for President Nixon and attacked the New Left, hippies, and communists...
...White House said it would be better if we didn't march because we'd just get arrested along with everybody else, and because we'd get beaten up by the militants." said Brad Evans, YAF coordinator for D. C. activities...
...Although YAF will not march, "some of us are going to brave the crowd anyway to pass out literature, until things start getting violent," Evans said...
...Thursday night, according to Evans, demonstrators broke into a YAF meeting and ripped up some of the group's literature. One YAF'er was hospitalized after the resulting fracas, Evans said...