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Guardsmen Without Rifles
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Move In On S.C, Trouble
By United Press International
* National Guardsmen, without
rifles, moved onto the Univer
sity of South Carolina campus
4 Thursday to help dislodge dem
onstrators from the student cen-
•Campus
Strikes
“Mount
* • By United Press International
Strikes and demonstrations at
hundreds of colleges and
university campuses mounted
♦!» today toward a peak of protest
I planned for the wekend.
I Tear gas was used to
disperse crowds of protesters at
A* the Universities of Wisconsin,
Kentucky and West Virginia,
and 12 persons were wounded
by birdshot at the State
* University of New York in
Buffalo.
A United Press International
t , count showed at least 191
colleges and universities closed
by order of school or state
officials. Thousands of students
* at other schools stayed away
from classes on “strike.”
All of California’s 28 state
colleges and universities as well
•• as most major private schools
and 54 of 92 community
colleges were closed.
The newly formed “National
* Strike Information Center” at
Brandeis University in Walth
am, Mass., said 356 schools
9 were striking with faculty or
administrative support.
In Buffalo, N.Y., the injured
students were believed to have
, been hit by shotgun fire from
other students.
About 400 state police in riot
gear dispersed a crowd of 1,500
* West Virginia University de
monstrators with tear gas
Thursday.
At Lexington, Ky., National
S Guardsmen and state troopers
used tear gas to break up a
| rally by 250 University of
I Kentucky students.
National Guardsmen used
| tear gas when students pelted
the Southern Illinois University
I security police with rocks. At
least 15 persons were arrested
i after the rock barrage ended.
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HOLLONVTLLE, GA.
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Friday, May 8, 1970
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.— University of North Carolina stu
dents lounge in their sleeping bags after a “sleep in” on the
campus lawn overnight. The striking students are trying to
get the rest of the student body to join them along with the
faculty. (UPI)
ter. A 100-man riot team of
state troopers was dispatched
to the University of Alabama.
Those two universities were
the principal trouble points in
the South as students protested
the slayings of four students at
Kent State University and U.S.
involvement in Cambodia.
At least 31 colleges and uni
versities were closed in Dixie
as a result of the demonstra
tions. Georgia shut down its en
tire 26-institution system.
Soldiers carry nightsticks
The National Guardsmen,
armed only with nightsticks,
aided police and state troopers
in removing a group of students
from student center on the uni
versity campus at Columbia,
S.C. Around 40 youths were ar
rested and two youths were
hurt in a scuffle with troopers.
South Carolina Gov. Robert
McNair, who ordered in the
soldiers after the students re
fused repeated demands to
leave the student center, said,
“We went the last mile and a
half” with the protesters and
“I hope they do not expect us
to do it again.”
The soldiers and troopers left
the campus after the student
center was cleared.
Alabama Gov. Albert P.
Brewer, stating, “We will not
tolerate lawlessness,” sent the
troopers to the campus at Tus
caloosa, Ala., after students ig
nored pleas to leave the Stu
dent Union building, where they
staged a vigil all Wednesday
night Fire swept through a
gymnasium on the campus ear
ly Thursday morning. The stu
dents dispersed when police ar
rived.
Georgia’s university system
was closed after an all-night
demonstration by students
Thursday at the University of
Georgia. Gov. Lester Maddox
said the closure was “regret
able . . . (but) wise.” He said,
“if the situation should cause
the state to lose one student’s
life, we would never forgive
ourselves.”
Classes Cancelled
Classes were cancelled at the
University of Florida, Florida
State University and the Uni
versity of Miami at the demand
of students.
Gov. Claude Kirk attended a
nightlong vigil at Florida State
University, saying dissidents
should try to change the state
of the world “by working with
in the system.” Kirk planned to
visit a similar rally at the Uni
versity of Miami tonight.
Classes were suspended at
Peabody College in Nashville,
Tenn., for the second day and
at Maryville College for a one
day session of seminars, discus
sion and meditation on war and
violence.”
At the University of Tennes
see, a student strike entered its
second day with supporters pre
dicting wider absenteeism. Or
ganizers claimed 65 per cent of
UT’s 20,000 students missed
classes Thursda y—either by per
sonal choice or by professors
cancellation.
Student groups from Duke
University, the University of
North Carolina and North Caro
lina State University scheduled
a march to Gov. Bob Scott’s
Raleigh office today to ask him
to retract a telegram of sup
port sent to President Nixon. In
the telegram sent last week,
Scott said he stood behind the
President’s decision to send
troops into Cambodia.
Students reported the third
day of a student strike was “80
per cent effective” at the Uni
versity of Virginia. Early Thurs
day morning, the last of the 200
students who invaded Maury
Hall for a six - hour sit - in
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Agnew Charges
‘Over-Reaction ’
WASHINGTON (UPI)-In the
heat of anger, National Guards
men apparently “over-reacted”
and may, in a sense, have been
guilty of murder in the shooting
deaths of the four Kent State
University students, Vice Pres
ident Spiro T. Agnew said
Thursday night.
Agnew appeared on the
taping of a television show with
David Frost in a studio of
KTTV in Los Angeles only a
few hours after President Nixon
assured college presidents that
administration officials would
mute hostile comments about
college students.
Under questioning by Frost,
Agnew said he had great
sorrow over the tragedy in Ohio
but added he felt the guards
men, most of them no older
than the students, acted in the
heat of anger.
Agnew said during the
television program, which will
be aired next Wednesday night
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ing that houses the Naval
ROTC classrooms.
About 700 University of South
ern Mississippi students held a
brief rally Thursday night and
pushing and shoving took place
briefly at the end of the rally
when students favoring the ad
ministration policy in Indochina
were denied access to micro
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but parts of which were made
known in Washington, he felt
there would have been no
shooting had not militants
hurled rocks and attacked the
guardsmen.
Pursues Question
Pursuing the question, Frost
asked whether there might not
have been any demonstration
had not students been upset
over the movement of U.S.
troops into Cambodia.
Agnew replied that was
possible but suggested certain
elements were ready to riot
over almost anything, including
the length of haircuts.
Agnew was asked whether
guardsmen might not be held
responsible for “murder” if it
was established that no shots
were fired at them first.
“Yes, but not first degree
murder,” the vice president
replied. “There was no preme
ditation but apparently an over
reaction in the heat of anger.”
“Hope of the Nation”
Agnew said that it was his
heartfelt opinion that “with the
young people today rests the
hope of the nation.”
Frost asked him about
Interior Secretary Walter Hick
el’s letter to President Nixon
suggesting Agnew’s speeches
had contributed to a lack of
communication between the
younger people and the admi
nistration.
The vice president said he did
not believe his “old friend”
Hickel had read his speeches
and added that he believed the
opinions of younger persons
were being heard.
“But the fact that they are
heard does not necessarily
mean they must be heeded,” he
said.
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WASHINGTON - Ann Holmes, 20 (right), president of Stu
dent Government at Finch College, and Missy Allen, 22,
secretary of the group, talk with reporters, outside the White
House after meeting with President Nixon’s daughter,
Tricia, who graduated from the school. The two said they met
With Tricia to discuss Nixon’s decision “to send troops to
Cambodia.” (UPI)