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...week's end the main hope for restoring peace at Columbia rested with the faculty-and with the majority of students who, while appalled by the police raid and desirous of change, were beginning to doubt whether they really wanted to take over the university after all. Quite clearly, the university was due for "restructuring"-Columbia's word of the week-although even the faculty committee responsible for recommending changes was not sure how. As Philosophy Lecturer Vincent E. Smith told a class last week: "You can't order a reformation Sunday and expect to have...
...scene I witnessed at Umuahia's Queen Elizabeth Hospital following the air raid was repeated in nearly every Biafran town I visited. Under tall shade trees outside an already filled mortuary lay a score of corpses, including pregnant women and months-old babies, charred, disfigured and mangled. Amid the tearful cries of keening women, workers carried into the morgue mashed human fragments piled on stretchers, and limbs and torsos balanced on shovels. The next morning, clutching handkerchiefs over nose and mouth against the stench and carrying freshly sawed unpainted wood coffins, the families lined up patiently under the trees...
Since the air war can only be waged with outside aid, Biafra's Oxford-educated leader, Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 34, is understandably outraged at the Russians and Egyptians. When I met Ojukwu on the evening of the Umuahia air raid in his closely guarded stucco house atop a hill outside town, he spoke of the "hot and cold flashes that go through my mind" when he sees the air raid victims. "Viewing their mangled remains on a mortuary slab," he said, "I feel anger with those who made devastating weapons available to primitive men. I even find myself...
Cooling Tempers. Initial reaction to the police raid was an emotional tide of sympathy for the protesters. There were numerous student rallies on campus, one of which led to a brief but violent clash with police that contributed eleven more injuries to the week's total. Both the Spectator and the moderate student government called for resignations of Kirk and Provost David Truman and joined S.D.S. President Mark Rudd in urging a campus strike-a suggestion formally supported by 400 faculty members. Rudd, 20, was leader of last March's sit-in at Low Library (for which...
...university." At the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York, 50 students staged a 17-hour sit-in at the school's business office to express sympathy with the Columbia protesters and to assail the invasion of the campus by police in a drug raid last winter...