To Berkeley's aging young agitators, it was a dreamlike revival of past hell raising. To Berkeley's recently confident administrators, it was a sickening replay of two-year-old nightmares. Cops swung clubs on campus. Angry students scratched and bit policemen, or defiantly lay prone. The perennial martyr, Non-Student Mario Savio, exhorted cheering students, some perched in trees, to stay out of class. Nearly 2,000 of them did, and Berkeley again seemed close to coming unhinged.
There were significant differences between last week's disorders and those of November-December 1964. Two years ago, well-organized campus...
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