Word: ogcp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain seemed to have little effect on the 120 demonstrators who picketed in front of the OGCP office for an hour yesterday afternoon, protesting the presence of a Honeywell recruiter at Harvard...
...crowd began its vigil at the OGCP offices on Dunster St., then moved into the Yard and stood in front of University Hall chanting, "Honeywell out of Harvard!" Their shouts drew a few bespectacled faces to the windows, but no other response from either administrators or OGCP officials...
Yesterday's demonstration echoes those of past years. In February 1972, about 50 demonstrators confronted the director of OGCP to demand a justification of Marine recruiters at the University. The protesters, milling inside the building after the recruiter had left, were told that a 1968 Faculty resolution requires the OGCP to "make its facilities available to the broadest possible range of organizations offering information relevant to the future and career plans of Harvard and Radcliffe students...
...problem of complicity is raised by Honeywell's appearance today at the OGCP to recruit employees from Harvard. Honeywell produces useful goods like medical supplies and Pentax cameras. Honeywell also produces antipersonnel bombs and components for the electronic battlefield--both of which significantly contributed to the destruction of Indochina...
...accumulation of wealth for the company and its executives leads directly to the accumulation of misery and death for the victims of Honeywell's bombs. Members of the Radcliffe-Harvard New American Moverment and the Democratic Socialists have called for the picketing of the Honeywell recruiter at the OGCP office today. A peoples' trial of Honeywell will follow. A corporation so plainly tainted by human blood should not be allowed to produce war material without protest...