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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 7

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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Waves of Bodies Sit In rr At Center60 Arrested "-n f7r jit puffer if ifx ft I Continued from Page 1 attempted to sit in. front of police van, they too were arrested and joined their fellow protesters inside van. Streets adjacent to the Oakland City Hall and on the sidewalk directly in front of the center. Well over 200 police officers stood by inside the garage as 20 California Highway Patrol cars and two busloads of A group of 13 demonstrators 3 XHOUCHIM CENTER CLAY a i' I i wpM 1 Pi 1,23 mmitm mt(t r-wmffl XrjXm 1 II 5t CITY HAlLg.l 1 JrCNL'l i BROADWAY CITY HALL AND INDUCTION CENTER Scenes of anti-draft protest demonstrations marched back around the corner to Clay Street the arrested were replaced at the door another dozen demonstra Police van is quickly filled with anti-draft demonstrators at induction center, (AP) tors. 'i Parking Problems in Oakland sat in the street on.

15th Street in an attempt to keep buses from delivering inductees. All were promptly placed in custody and two went limp and had to be carried into the police van. Miss Baez, wearing a doeskin jacket and carrying a red rose, was the second from her group to enter the police van. She said she had "been ready to go to jail for two hours." Her mother, Mrs. Joan Baez, 54, was among the first group to be arrested.

Gov. Ronald Reagan's office said in Sacramento this morning that 100 California Highway Patrol officers were as-. signed to Oakland to assist local authorities. The highway -patrolmen were released about 10:30 a.m. Miss Baez's sister, Mimi Farina, also a folk singer and their manager, Ira Sandperl, also 'were arrested.

At 11:50 police moved from Clay Street around to 15th Street to arrest 20 demonstrators blocking the side door. Four refused to cooperate with the arrest and were carried limp to the police van. As soon as the police cordon "university, facilities for the advocacy of illegal acts off campus." The Alameda County Superior Court petition arped that permitting the teach-in violates the federal Universal trust" section of- the State Constitution. Tomorrow's demonstration is "aimed at closing the Oakland Induction Center," according to an announcement by the Stop the Draft Commit-teewhich is coordinating the "effort. or Berkeley Come to left to attend an anti-draft rally at the federal building in San Francisco.

Police refused to disclose their strength or estimate the number of protesters. The estimate of about 600 demonstrators was by newsmen. At 6:55, some 50 Oakland police officers, wearing helmets and carrying gas masks and clubs, left in columns of four from the garage at 1425 Clay St. The officers marched to the sidewalk front of the center and formed a shoulder-to-shoulder passageway leading up door. Police Capt.

James J. McCarthy informed the group sitting in that he was a police officer and he ordered them to leave in the name of the state of California. When the demonstrators re Military Training and Service Act, state law and the public At shortly after noon, as the number of pickets dwindled to around 250, a fight broke out between an elderly man and a young man, the second of whom was believed to be a demonstrator. Witnesses said that the elderly man had made a remark to a girl demonstrator carrying a "MakeLove, Not War" sign and the young man began a scuffle. Police moved in and broke up the scuffle, but while they were arresting the elder man, a third person jumped on an officer's back.

The marching crowd thinned out swiftly after noon as many of the demonstrators Alameda County Sheriff's Department deputies arrived and were admitted to the garage. On the sidewalk, some 50 1 i officers admonished picketers who stepped off the sidewalk into the street but otherwise did not interfere the early part of the demonstration. The demonstratiors were a mixed group. About half appeared to be students, between 18 and 22 years oldT but there was a liberal sprinkling of well-dressed, middle-aged and a few older people. A few carried hand made signs.

The Oakland demonstration and arrests were the opening phase of what was scheduled to be a busy week of protests against the draft. A teach-in is scheduled tonight at the University of California Student Union on the Berkeley campus. In a special statement issued last night Berkeley Chancellor Roger Heyns urged students to refrain from illegal acts during the teach-in. "I urge all students to consider the gravity of organized illegal activity and of its related violence," he said. "I urge all students not to join in such illegal acts." The all-night teach-in is to be followed by a massive demonstration at the Oakland induction center tomorrow morning.

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As inductees were escorted to the doorway, the crowd chanted "Hell, no, don't go," the slogan of a nationwide, movement opposing the draft and the Vietnam war. Demonstrators began to gather shortly before 6 a.m. and by 6:30 newsmen estimated there were 600 pickets marching in four lines in the vjcinity of the induction center. The largest group circled on the sidewalk on Clay Street across from the center. Other picket lines formed in front of the Downtown Garage at 1425 Clay on 15th Street between Clay and Washington TTTTTTTTTTTTT 'II COMPLETE THEATRICAL RESERVATION SERVICE laws by allowing the use of hobbies: FOR ALL THE FAMILY Art Supplies -Craftt Trains Airplanes SHIP MODELS for mantel, wood, plastic liiUmiricint- Miitir Ckirti RUSSCRAFT 6015 FOOTHILL BLVD.

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