CAMPUS RIOT
Tear-Gas Dropped (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) BERKELEY (California), May 21. A military helicopter bombed 1000 student demonstrators with tear-gas yesterday in an escalation of the guerrilla-style warfare that has torn this university city for the last six days. The National Guard aircraft flew over a main square of the University of California campus about 200 ft dropping powdered gas among the milling students. Police heaved gas cans at the demonstrators as they fled in panic from the square, sending clouds of smoke billowing out into nearby city streets.
The action started today when 1500 students, many of them wearing black armbands and black clothes, held a silent campus vigil for a youth who died from gunshot wounds suffered in rioting last Thursday.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31994, 22 May 1969, Page 11
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