Word: cfia
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...Visiting Committee of the Center of International Affairs (CFIA), which is located on Memorial Drive, is forced to end a meeting when 200 members of the November Action Committee (NAC) enter the building and demonstrate. The following week marks a long-awaited Vietnam War protest week, during which Black Panther Party members speak at a Panther teach-in on campus...
...campuses are on strike, but 149 others have ceased their protests. Despite Faculty opposition to the war, the CRR begins proceedings against students who demonstrated in the CFIA building and others who picketed around University Hall. By the end of the academic year, 25 students have been disciplined...
...House Internal Security Committee identifies the college campus speaking circuit as a major source of funds "for promoters of...revolutionary activity among students," Harvard becomes the site of increasing protests against the role of the CFIA in American foreign policy...
...October 14, a bomb goes off on the third-floor library of the CFIA building, but no one is injured. The next day, a women's group called the Proud Eagle Tribe, whose members are unaffiliated with the College, claims responsibility for the bombing, but police are unable to make any arrests. Police believe that other conspirators are involved in the bombing because the bomb is too sophisticated a device for women to construct, according to investigating Cambridge Police Sergeant James A. Roscoe...
After several relatively peaceful months,tensions on campus erupt once again in April. Onthe 18th, anti-war demonstrators in Boston marchto Cambridge and ransack the CFIA building,breaking windows and causing $20,000 to $25,000 indamages. Fifty riot-equipped police use tear gasand sweep the Square in order to end thedisturbance...