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...Resistance spokesman said the sanctuary had been established in the student center rather than the chapel to demonstrate that "acts of conscience need not be restricted to exercise within the walls of church." An AWOL private was granted sanctuary in the student center of the College of the City of New York yesterday, and resistance organizers were arranging a broadcast telephone conversation between him and O'Connor...
Michael O'Connor, AWOL from the army since September 14, spent his third day of sanctuary in the M.I.T. student center yesterday...
...Community, said that the New England Draft Resistance Group (NEDRG) put O'Connor in touch with the M.I.T. Resistance. Stein explained that the M.I.T. Resistance had been planning a sanctuary for over three weeks. However, the NEDRG, fearing interference from the F.B.I., did not release the name of the AWOL until a few minutes before the sanctuary began...
...Connor said that he himself first became interested in seeking sanctuary after attending B.U.'s Marsh Chapel last October during the vigil for AWOL Army private Ray Kroll. He had gone AWOL last spring for 50 days "purely for selfish reasons--just to get out of it myself...
...September he decided to leave camp again after some guards "beat the hell out of me and falsely accused me of trying to start a riot in the camp." This time he went AWOL, he added, "not just for myself, but for everyone else...