Word: arrests
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...expected the Faculty to physically harrass the MP's when they came to arrest the Marine or to taunt them with cries of "Pigs! Pigs!" But, in Cox's words, one expected "something": Faculty members might have made statements of support, or joined the chain which bound Olimpieri to his wife and friends, or brought him food. In short, they might have shared symbolically in the Marine's protest...
...most conspicuous failure, however, was that of the students themselves. Tuesday afternoon, after Olimpieri's arrest, 100 of them met for over two hours to discuss the implications of the sanctuary. At the meeting the students failed to agree upon a position of support for the Marine, failed to address themselves to any of the issues which the sanctuary raised, and finally relinquished their responsibility to the Student Council which, that night, adopted a statement urging others "to join with us in similar acts of protest...
James B. Prior, one of the students who organized the sanctuary, said after the arrest that the University had proven its "complicity" with the war by remaining neutral. From the radicals' point of view, the statement was embarrassing. In the first place, on what grounds could they ask Stendahl, or Harvard, to establish its non-complicity by refusing to recognize a Federal warrant? And second, how could they expect the University publicly to support the Marine when they couldn't even persuade the student body...
Conversely, to the extent that the Divinity School was unable to dramatize Olimpieri's sanctuary, the sanctuary lost any value it might have had. Olimpieri, almost obscured by the events he set in motion, angrily charged after his arrest that he had been "used" by the students. He may or may not have spoken under pressure from the Marines. He may or may not have been entirely moral and intelligent in his reasons for leaving the Marines in the first place. But what is more important is that the issues his sanctuary raised--the war, the draft, resistance, and their...
...Radcliffe student is being held under investigative arrest in a local jail in Budapest, Hungary, an official of the State Department revealed yesterday...