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...YEARS AGO TODAY, at dawn, 400 state and local policemen marched up the steps of University Hall, clubs raised, and began the brutal eviction of hundreds of student demonstrators who had occupied the building. More than 75 students were injured in the raid, and an appalled University came together for a momentous nine-day strike--nine days of the most dynamic political activity this University has seen. Just as the police bust was the last vain attempt of the Harvard administration to restore its own vision of a Harvard that had quite simply ceased to exist, the strike that followed...
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the police raid on student demonstrators occupying University Hall--an event that triggered the historic nine-day strike of April 1969. Next week The Crimson will publish a special supplement on the strike and the lingering effects on Harvard in the past decade...
...police moved in shortly after 5 a.m. The raid began minutes after Fred L. Glimp '50--then dean of the College and now vice president for alumni affairs and development--warned the demonstrators inside that they had five minutes to evacuate the hall. Many demonstrators said later that Glimp's bullhorn-amplified voice was inaudible inside the building...
That detail, like many others, remains vague. The Crimson, for instance, reported that more than 400 state and suburban policemen were involved in the raid; other reports ran as low as 200. Rumors circulated wildly about the number arrested, and injured. Almost all that is clear about the occupation is why the students were there in the first place...
...farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend their acres from within fortress-like arrays of fences, and travel through the bush in vehicles built to withstand mine explosions. Increasingly, the Rhodesian military has resorted to sending its jets on bombing raids on guerrilla camps in Zambia and Angola. Last week one such raid into Angola, according to the Patriotic Front, killed 192 and wounded nearly 1,000 guerrillas and civilians...