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...member of the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) was convicted in federal court yesterday for his refusal to leave a Boston courthouse during an anti-registration demonstration last month...
Protesters organized by the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD) marched on post offices in Cambridge and Boston, clashing several times with police, who arrested a total of 44 people through last Saturday...
While Selective Service System spokesmen predicted that 98 per cent of the 1.9 million 18-year-olds required to register would indeed sign up BAARD members said the statistics do not matter. "This is the beginning of an anti-war movement to prevent the next war, not just to end registration," Frank Broadhead, BAARD's director, said at Saturday's demonstration in Harvard Square...
While most BAARD members felt that their demonstration was successful, post office employees estimated that about 25 18-year-olds registered while the three-hour demonstration went on outside...
...BAARD members, however, disputed this estimation, saying that only a handful of people entered the post office during the protest, "and most of them were little old ladies...