Word: olimpieri
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...plan for putting Marine Paul Olimpieri in Andover Chapel was hatched by seven Harvard Divinity School students who decided during the summer that their chapel should be open to draft resisters...
...Olimpieri's arrival at Andover was engineered with the aid of the Committee of Religious Concern for Peace (the New England branch of the National Committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam) and New England Resistance, whom Olimpieri had contacted before leaving his post...
When they learned on Sunday, September 22, that Olimpieri was arriving, the seven Divinity School students immediately presented a letter to Krister Stendahl, dean of the Divinity School, to inform him of their action. Stendahl received the letter at 12:15 p.m.; the press was informed of the sanctuary...
Four SDS members, including Kazin, have written a leaflet expressing their support of Paul Olimpieri--the Marine now in the chapel--yet also emphasizing their basic political disagreement with the Divinity School students organizing his sanctuary...
...Olimpieri is obviously justified," said Kazin, "but the Divinity School's appeal to higher conscience is a bit too individually oriented. The war and American foreign policy are unjust, and everyone should be resisting...