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Harvard was not free from violence, however: a Boston antiwar march unexpectedly veered onto the Harvard campus and, in a senseless three-minute rampage, 150 marchers devastated the interior of the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), causing about $25,000 in damage. The marchers charged that the CFIA engages in counter-insurgency research for the American military. Almost no Harvard students were involved in the action, and the community almost unanimously deplored the incident...
...downtown Boston. After several hundred demonstrators risked arrest for about one-half hour by sitting in front of the Tremont St. office, a PCPJ spokesman unexpectedly announced that the march would proceed to a "military-linked target" somewhere in the Cambridge area. The target's identity (it was the CFIA) and what would occur once the marchers reached it were kept secret, the spokesman explained, so that the police would not be able to abort the action...
...because the route followed was the same as taken by an April 15, 1970 march that ended in street-fighting in the Square. As the marchers passed several targets in the Central Square area and continued west on Mass Ave, a Harvard target seemed even more probable. But the CFIA building was considered unlikely because a city-wide planning meeting several days earlier had ruled out University targets...
...Cambridge City Council last night overwhelmingly defeated a motion to bill President Nixon for expenses incurred by the City during the Harvard Square riot and CFIA trashing two weeks...
...publicity given to the CFIA trashing could have caused prospective students to reconsider coming to Radcliffe." Williston added...