The Nation - News from Aug. 8, 1988

About 750 persons hurled bottles and fireworks at helmeted and club-wielding New York City police to protest plans to close a city park at 1 a.m. nightly, authorities said. Seven police officers and at least two demonstrators were injured in the all-night melee in the park on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, a police spokesman said. Police arrested nine people on charges of riot, assault, reckless endangerment and possession of bottles, which they said were being used as deadly weapons, but police were unable to control the youthful and largely white and Latino crowd until it dispersed at dawn.