Word: portsmouth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Loughlin, assistant superintendent of schools in Portsmouth, N.H., is worried, as are most other U.S. education officials, about the U.S. Civil Rights Commission's Forms 101 and 102. They demand that he list the number of black, Hispanic, female and handicapped pupils in each class in the city's schools. Loughlin notes that the federal rules require gathering "a lot of data that we don't keep and that is illegal for us to find out." How does Loughlin cope? "Some of the answers we just make up," he confesses...
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Polite Police. For months, the Clamshell Alliance, a Portsmouth-based organization founded by New England antinuclear groups, had been planning its strategy and training volunteers in the techniques of nonviolent resistance. Then the alliance marshaled its forces and took the offensive. As the main body of slogan-chanting demonstrators converged on the main gate of the Seabrook site, another group advanced on the area across a salt marsh. A third force arrived in boats piloted by local lobster-men-who fear that the discharge from the plant would cut their catches-and waded ashore. By the evening of the first...
...protesters went limp and had to be carried from the site. But most of them listened impassively as police politely told them they were arrested; then they picked up their packs and boarded the waiting buses for the 25-minute ride to the National Guard armory in Portsmouth. Most of the more than 1,400 protesters arrested and charged with criminal trespass refused to post the required bail...