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...announced that he was Shoichi Yokoi, 56, a sergeant in the 38th Infantry Regiment of the old Japanese Imperial Army. He had been hiding out in the jungles of Guam since U.S. forces recaptured the island during a month-long siege in the summer of 1944. From a leaflet that he found one day, Yokoi had known for 20 years that the war was over. But he had refused to surrender, he said, because "we Japanese soldiers were told to prefer death to the disgrace of getting captured alive...
...stop the party. It was planned weeks in advance for that Saturday night, a fact which the Crimson omitted. If there were objections to the noise that the party would have caused, it could have been held in one of Barnard's common rooms. Furthermore, as the SDS leaflet pointed out, a party organized by black women in South House last year was broken up by police, and black students' parties were stopped in Comstock a few years ago for "security reasons." Racism at Harvard is not a figment of SDS's imagination, as minority students and, workers here...
Secondly, the article suggests that the women who organized the party had no knowledge of the SDS, leaflet, and considered the matter closed. In fact, several of the women involved had discussed with SDS plans to protest this incident, and helped to revise the leaflet. All of the women have since decided that they prefer not to press the issue. SDS respects their decision, and plans no further action on this particular matter. John Santos '75 Jeff Mayersohn '73 Ira Helfland '72 Bonnie Blustein '72 Orlando Jimenez '75 Brian Mendis...
...when contacted last night about the leaflet. SDS member Bonnie E. Blustein '72 said. "The leaflet was read by the girls involved, and with a few corrections, they approved it." Blustein also indicated that the other charges of discrimination contained in the flier were equally valid...
...leaflet--which has been circulating since Sunday--alleges that Long announced the party at a dorm meeting four weeks in advance, and was not told until the day before the party that she could not have it because certain students objected. According to the leaflet. "This kind of thing seems to be a Radcliffe tradition," and it lists several other incidents of alleged racism...