Tag Archive: The Sixties

An Outcry: Thoughts on Being Tear Gassed

Newsweek, June 2, 1969

LAST TUESDAY, I was gassed twice in Berkeley.  It hurt.  The police and National Guard no longer bother with simple tear gas.  They are using a chemi­cal called CS — the kids call it pepper gas — that the Army uses in Vietnam.

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McCarthy: Making the System Work

The New Leader, December 18, 1967

“BOBBY KENNEDY wants to be President so badly you can practically see him saliva­ting,” one observer here noted re­cently.  Yet Senator Eugene Mc­Carthy, who doesn’t particularly want to assume the burdens of world leadership, is the man seeking the nomination.  What gives?

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