THE INCIDENTS AT THE U.S. EMBASSY; THEN NATURAL SOUND OF THE DEMONSTRATORS MARCHING ON THE HOTEL, CHANTING "HANDS OFF VIETNAM" AND "OUT, OUT, OUT!" THERE IS ALSO A DEMONSTRATOR SINGING A PROTEST SONG, ON WHICH THERE IS NO COPYRIGHT.


1.
LV U.S. EMBASSY, DEMONSTRATORS WITH PLACARDS PAST
0.05

2.
LV POLICE STAND BY
0.08

3.
MV POLICE AS DEMONSTRATORS CROSS ROAD (2 SHOTS)
0.15

4.
MV POLICE STOP MAN RIPPING U.S. FLAG
0.17

5.
MV MAN HELD...PAN TO ANOTHER LYING ON PAVEMENT
0.20

6.
MV DITTO --- POLICE INTERVENE
0.24

7.
MV POLICE LIFT MAN THROUGH CROWD TO CAR
0.34

8.
MV ANOTHER MAN SITS DOWN IN FRONT OF CAR, IS DRAGGED AWAY
0.44


NATURAL SOF BEGINS


9.
LV PARK LANE AS MARCHERS TOWARDS DORCHESTER HOTEL
0.49

10.
MV MARCHERS CHANT: "HANDS OFF VIETNAM"
0.59

11.
CU BANNERS AS CHANTING CONTINUES
1.03

12.
LV DORCHESTER AS MARCHERS PARADE OUTSIDE
1.08

13.
CU POLICEMAN CONTROLS CROWD
1.13

14.
MV MARCHERS AND POLICE
1.23

15.
MV GUITARIST SINGS VIETNAM PROTEST
1.36

16.
LV MARCHERS PARADE AND CHANT: OUT, OUT, OUT! AS HOTEL DOORMAN TRIES TO LEAD CAR THROUGH PROCESSION.
1.59



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Background: THERE WERE MORE DEMONSTRATIONS IN LONDON TODAY (MONDAY) AGAINST UNITED STATES POLICY IN VIETNAM. AT THE AMERICAN EMBASSY, WHERE THEY WERE CELEBRATING INDEPENDENCE DAY, A PACIFIST TRIED TO RIP UP THE STARS AND STRIPES. ANOTHER LAY ON THE PAVEMENT, AND WHEN HE WAS DETAINED BY POLICE, A THIRD SAT DOWN IN FRONT OF THE PATROL CAR. OTHER DEMONSTRATORS MARCHED ON THE DORCHESTER HOTEL, WHERE AN INDEPENDENCE DAY DINNER WAS BEING HELD.

POLICE STOOD BY AT THE EMBASSY, IN GROSVENOR SQUARE, FOLLOWING YESTERDAY'S CLASHES IN WHICH 27 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED. BUT TODAY THE SITUATION WAS RELATIVELY PEACEFUL. IN ADDITION TO THE INCIDENTS IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING, ANOTHER PACIFIST GATE-CRASHED A RECEPTION GIVEN BY THE AMBASSADOR INSIDE.

HAVING MADE THEIR PROTEST AT THE EMBASSY, THE DEMONSTRATORS SET OUT FOR THE DORCHESTER IN PARK LANE. THE PROTEST --- ORGANISED BY TWO PACIFIST ORGANISATION --- WAS DIRECTED MAINLY AT THE AMERICAN BOMBING RAIDS ON THE OIL DUMPS AT HANOI AND HAIPHONG. THERE WERE NON FURTHER INCIDENTS, ALTHOUGH POLICE HAD A BUSY TIME CONTROLLING THE PROCESSION AND THE RUSH HOUR TRAFFIC.

(OTHER DEMONSTRATIONS WERE HELD IN A NUMBER OF EUROPEAN CITIES -- PARIS, COPENHAGEN AND FRANKFURT, AMONG THEM. THEY FOLLOW A RASH OF PROTESTS IN OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD).