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...demonstrators - most of whom are members of the Boston Alliance Against registration and the Draft (BAARD)--clapped and laughed several times during the arraignment at the Middlesex County Court Building and court guards repeatedly threatened to kick members out of the room. The first warning came when one protester at first refused to stand up as Judge Lawrence Feloni entered the courtroom. When the group loudly hissed at Joseph Mlot-Mroz, a demonstrator who was not part of BAARD but carried an anti-Israel placard at the protest, they were again admonished by court officials...
Most of the BAARD members said before the arraignment that they expected the charges to be dismissed because Cambridge police neglected to read the Riot Act or warn the protesters that they would be arrested once they stopped circling with picket signs and joined arms...
Once in the streets, however, BAARD has not been able to draw more than 50 people to any one protest. Last Saturday's sit-in in the McCormack Building, during which federal officers arrested 22 people, has highlighted the week's events. But Leyland and her compatriots will plug...
...anyone out in this cold is an achievement," Greg Ward, another BAARD member, said at Tuesday's pine tree party...
Furthermore, many people do not believe the Selective Service System's claim that 95 per cent of the eligible men complied with the summer registration. BAARD claims 25 per cent, or about one million people, did not register and adds that the turnout this week has also been light. No official statistics are kept by post offices, and the Selective Service has not yet collected any registration cards...