AUSTIN, Texas: Spiraling pro-Palestinian protests that are rocking universities across the United States spread to more campuses on Wednesday, triggering suggestions from a senior Republican leader that the National Guard could be brought in.

The comments from House Speaker Mike Johnson are likely to evoke strong emotions in a country where the 1970 killing of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War by National Guardsmen lives on in folk memory.

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