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Ninety-one members of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU), arms linked and chanting "Black, black power to the African people," filed slowly out of University Hall yesterday after occupying the building for nearly five hours...
Yesterday was the second time in a week that OBU has moved into University Hall to dramatize its demands for a 20 per cent quota of non-white workers on all Harvard construction projects and equal pay for painters helpers...
...University press statement, released last night, says. "Harvard University greatly regrets the refusal of OBU to continue discussion of concrete steps to increase black and other minority employment upon construction projects...
...always ready to review the pertinent data with OBU in the hope that all of us may achieve a better understanding of the facts," the statement adds. "We do not enjoy being used for propaganda purposes...
...agreement reached Friday after a six-hour work stoppage by black people demonstrates again that white institutions seem unable to respond to the needs of black people unless they are threatened," said an OBU press statement released Monday. "And it should teach a lesson to those who say they cannot understand the tactics of black people...