Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...area case involved a man in Gloucester, Mass., 100 miles from the Cape. That was puzzling because no infected ticks had been found there. The doctors questioned the man closely. No, he had not been to the Cape. In fact, he had not been anywhere except out on the marsh, duck hunting. With a dog? Yes. It turned out that the dog had been trained, only a month earlier, on Cape Cod-where, presumably, it had picked up one or more ticks...
Army Pfc. Raymond D. Kroll, who took sanctuary in Marsh Chapel at Boston University for five days last month, was convicted Wednesday of being AWOL from his base at Fort Benning...
Guards barred from the fort two-thirds of the thirty members of the Marsh Chapel community who showed up to see the trial. A military spokesman cited a limited seating capacity as the reason. One would-be spectator said, "They're really uptight about us. I guess they're afraid we might actually talk to some of the other G.I.s on the base...
Kroll has been at Fort Devens since October 7 when FBI agents and Federal marshals entered Marsh Chapel and arrested him in front of 500 student sympathizers. A member of the New England Resistance, which has been in touch with Kroll since his arrest, said he has lost a lot of weight but is still "in good spirits...
...Connor said that he himself first became interested in seeking sanctuary after attending B.U.'s Marsh Chapel last October during the vigil for AWOL Army private Ray Kroll. He had gone AWOL last spring for 50 days "purely for selfish reasons--just to get out of it myself...