MARCH IN NEW YORK
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NEW YORK, December 8.
Anti-Vietnam war demonstrators plan a three-mile march today to end the largest stop-the-war demonstrations in New York.
The police said at least 2000 men would be called out to control the demonstrators as they marched on the main armed forces induction centre in Brooklyn, scene of three days of picketing earlier this week. The police have arrested 447 people so far in connection with the protests, including the baby-care expert, Dr Benjamin Spock, and a former United Nations envoy in the Congo, Dr Conor Cruise O’Brien.
The organisers of the “stop the draft—end the war week” said Dr Spock would lead today’s march. After three pre-dawn turnouts in an attempt to disrupt the working of the New York induction centre, today’s march is timed to hold up office-bound traffic. Demonstrators will march from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, across the Brooklyn Bridge, to the draft board building. Dr O’Brien last night alleged police brutality against demonstrators. In a letter to the Mayor of New
York (Mr John Lindsay) he said he was kicked on the hip during a sit-in at the induction centre. i
The number of demonstrators dropped from about 3000 on Tuesday to little more than 500 yesterday.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31548, 9 December 1967, Page 13
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