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Three other undergraduate protesters left the sit-in about an hour before the arrests. Approximately 45 activists staged the sit-in Monday at the office of Overseer Thomas L.P. O'Donnell '47, a senior partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray...
...group of alumni, undergraduates and community activists targeted O'Donnell because he has recently been chosen as the co-chairman of a joint committee of overseers and Corporation members that will investigate the University's investment policy. The formation of the committee was approved as an alternative to a direct Overseers' vote on divestment...
...activists yesterday charged that O'Donnell had an interest in voting against divestment because Ropes and Gray represents both Harvard and the South Africa-linked Gilette company...
...protesters called on O'Donnell to make a public statement in favor of divestment or resign from the Board of Overseers, and they also requested that he meet with all of them. O'Donnell did not accede to the demands and the protesters were arrested by Boston police for trespassing at 7:45 p.m., more than nine hours after the protest had begun...
Never before had the British Broadcasting Corporation's on-air decorum been so severely tested. Just as Newscasters Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell were about to begin The Six O'Clock News, four women rushed into the London studio. Their aim: to protest legislation prohibiting local authorities from promoting homosexuality...