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...PEOPLE in Sanders Theater voted to strike against the war and the PALC continued its occupation of Massachusetts Hall. A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Forum previewed at Leverett House Thursday night. This musical, though, has no redeeming social value; the mask it puts on is tunefully announced in the opening song: "Weighty affairs will just have to wait... Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy tonight!" Imperialism enters into the story just once: when the comically vainglorious captain, Miles Glorious, calls for the funeral of his apparently dead bride, he is asked, "But sir, do you have time...
...cent approval necessary to extend their two-day work stoppage didn't even make the top of the news page, as Harvard prepared for Thursday evening's mass meeting which voted to strike for at least five days against the war and to endorse PALC's Angola demands...
...Mass Hall break-in as unexpected as University Hall. For almost two months, Afro and PALC leaders had contained their frustration with the Administration's refusal to meet their divestiture demands. The idea of a building occupation had been considered on several occasions; the first mill-in in University Hall on February 24 very nearly became a takeover. In a meeting there, demonstrators voted not to hold the building, and since then similar votes or caucuses had decided to put off any occupation until Harvard made a decision on divestiture...
...When PALC leaders were handed that decision Wednesday afternoon, few doubted that a closed Afro meeting Wednesday night would first reject Bok's explanation to retain the stock, and then ponder a response. It was largely a matter of which building would be taken, when and how. But it was no surprise: two Harvard policemen don't ordinarily spend nights in Massachusetts Hall. As Bok said of the previously delayed, now real, occupation. "We weren't exactly unaware of the possibility...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard Corporation issued at statement refusing to meet the demands of the Pan-African Liberation Committee and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro and divest itself of gulf Oil company stock, a company supporting colonialist rule in Portuguese-dominated Angola and Mozambique. This morning members of PALC and Harvard-Radcliffe Afro sized and continue to occupy the offices of President Derek Bok in Massachusetts Gulf stock and make a public statement that it will not be involved in racist imperialist economic ventures in the future. Gulf Oil Company, with the blessing of the Portuguese and United States governments. NATO...