Word: awol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church accorded sanctuary last May to a draft resister and an AWOL soldier, the American Employers' Insurance Co. canceled the church's $1,400,000 property damage coverage. The congregation has failed to find a new underwriter. Westchester Fire Insurance Co. of New York dropped $256,000 worth of policies on the Unitarian Church of the Mediator in Providence, R.I., after the company learned that the congregation intended to offer sanctuary to draft resisters (it did, in fact, shelter two in June...
...AWOL Army private in Boston University's Marsh Chapel was arrested early Sunday morning after nearly five days of sanctuary...
About 300 students occupied Marsh Chapel of the Boston University Theological School for the third day yesterday, assuring the AWOL soldier who has taken sanctuary in the Chapel of a non-violent confrontation with the authorities who will eventually arrive to take him into custody...
...SUNDAY morning, September 22, Paul Olimpieri, an AWOL Marine, took sanctuary in the Andover Chapel of the Harvard Divinity School. Two days later Military Police took him out. Then, with barely a whimper, the first "confrontation" of the fall dissolved into nothingness...
John Galla, the B.U. student who assisted in Pratt's escape, visited Pratt and the other AWOL servicemen, Raymond Kroll, in Marsh Chapel Tuesday. Accordin to Galla, Pratt said then that he did not want any part of Resistance demonstrations, but wanted the opportunity to express his personal feelings about...