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...obsessive emphasis on "collective decision making," Mayday was at best, unpredictable. When the demonstrators began their traffic disruptions at about 6 on Monday morning, they were mostly small bands arrayed against Wilson's well trained and disciplined cops, who were reinforced by 6,000 federal troops and National Guardsmen, with another 6,000 in reserve. The troops' role, according to a police official, "was to be bodies in a game of musical bodies," to act as the manpower at bridges and other traffic arteries to push away abandoned cars and to protect property from "trashing...
...think about it. There were probably over 15,000 police, federal troops and National Guardsmen mobilized in the streets of the District of Columbia. Estimates of the number of troops on call ranged as high as 200,000. When you think that the government was forced to go to this extreme to defend itself against Americans who say No, you don't have the civil right to carry on business as usual when this business as usual means death and destruction for millions, you see just how scared they were. And their fear, their fright that Mayday might actually challenge...
...Ohio's Kent State University, or assuaged the anguish of the victims' families. On the anniversary of the tragedy, Pittsburgh's Arthur Krause cited a poem as best conveying the "essence and spirit" of his daughter Allison, one of the four students slain by Ohio National Guardsmen. Excerpts from the poem, written by Krause's friend, Manhattan Insurance Broker Peter Davies...
Almost 5000 National Guardsmen and state and city police are on alert at the Commonwealth Armory, but it is considered doubtful that the guardsmen or state police will be called into action...
National Guard officials also announced that Guardsmen would be holding "extra drills" today and tomorrow, but declined comment on what role the Guard would play in policing the demonstration. They also refused to comment on a statement by an aide to Governor Sargent that the Governor had not requested any Guard call...