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Leaders of Wednesday's noon rally did not organize the sit-in, Colvig said, adding that the participants in the occupation "were not a coalesced group in any sense...
...last week into an Arab cause célèbre. More than 300 Arab convicts joined the protest in five jails. A demonstration by prisoners' relatives and sympathizers in East Jerusalem degenerated into a near riot. An Arab civic organization in the city called a half-day sit-in strike in the Al Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem's sacred Muslim shrine. The reason for the agitation: the recent deaths of two Palestinian inmates who were force-fed by Israeli authorities at Nafha prison. Last week TIME Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Aikman was among a small group of journalists...
Local anti-registration activists announced plans yesterday for a sit-in at Boston's main post office when draft registration begins in two weeks...
...Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft (BAARD), is organizing the sit-in support rally on the 21st, a series of information sessions for July 10 and 17, and a rally July 19. The group is also currently organizing a leafletting campaign designed to place canvassers outside many area post offices as possible during the two weeks of registration...
Meanwhile, Frank Affilito, a BAARD member, was sentenced to six months probation Wednesday morning for refusing to leave federal property. He and four others staged a five-hour sit-in in April in the Boston offices of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) in an attempt to persuade the Senator to join an anti-registration filibuster...