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...meeting demurred on a motion to declare support for Russian Jews, lost in confusion an amendment which might have dangerously clarified the meaning of a strike-not-against-the-University, and adjourned before voting on a condemnation of the CFIA trashing and a 36-hour hunger strike...
...latest Nixon escalation of the war in Indochina brought an immediate, though somewhat diffused, response from students at Harvard: Thursday night's strike meeting tried to pull together threads of protest after Tuesday's lightning attack on the CFIA. In the midst of planning antiwar actions, the Emergency Action Coalition found itself with a new issue Wednesday when President Bok announced Harvard's decision not to sell its 671,876 shares of Gulf Oil stock...
...carry with them a large measure of strong political logic. They may begin with marches in the streets, and then progress to pickets of military and other war-related centers of activity. And they must ultimately assume the form of massive, non-violent civil disobedience. No trashing of the CFIA: we must take great care in insuring that the people who witness our protest understand that it is directed not against them but against the war, that it is not a random or politically senseless action, that its target is that small group of officials in the highest councils...
...should be pointed out that the ransacking of the CFIA was not the intent of those 2000 persons who gathered on the Boston Common yesterday. It was the intent of a small minority of those 2000 who led the crowd blindly to Harvard and, once here, accomplished their planned assault on the building. We censure this minority which, in a five-minute span, seriously endangered the good this week's antiwar protests could effect...
...Crimson reemphasizes the urgent need for unified, visible and disciplined demonstrations of opposition to the Nixon Administration's continued aggression in Southeast Asia. Thursday night's strike meeting can provide the kind of coordination for antiwar protests that will prevent a recurrence of yesterday's action at the CFIA...