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...most, passive onlookers at the closing down of "the war machine." The Justice Department and Washington Police Chief, Jerry V. Wilson, fearing that the force of 50,000 could indeed paralyze the city, hit upon a brilliant maneuver. At 6:30 a.m., Wilson's police quietly moved into "Algonquin Peace City," revoked the campers' permit, disconnected the all-important loudspeaker and sent the kids scattering. Many simply left town; others spent the time that was to have been used laying out Mayday's grand strategy roaming the streets in search of a place to sleep...
...march-originally expected to be small-ballooned out of proportion when hundreds of persons evicted from the Algonquin Peace City yesterday morning joined the women organizers and poured into the streets bordering the Ellipse...
Over 50,000 people stretched languidly across a polo field adjacent to Algonquin Peace City as performers ranging from the Beach Boys to Phil Ochs played for 17 hours through the night, but when dawn broke yesterday, concert-goers rolled over to find a line of helmeted police over half-a-mile long stationed in the trees along Independence Ave. A police sound truck circled the park at 6:30 a.m., awakening campers and instructing them to leave the park or face arrest...
...were they pleased as they marched past the smoldering campfires and abandoned tents of what was once Algonquin Peace City. What they found was an indication that there are many more hours of unenviable duty in store for them in the next three days. As one message left on an abandoned tent post in Peace City told them: "Sorry we couldn't oblige you, but we don't dig violence. See you tomorrow. Peace...
Hosea Williams, national program director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), was among those arrested yesterday. Williams arrived at the Justice Department at about noon with over 600 demonstrators from the Algonquin Peace City situated two miles away at West Potomac Park...