Vol. V., No. 121 Serving the Notre Dame -St. Mary's Community Tuesday, May 4, 1971 Peace Demonstrations Stalled 7000 demonstrators ND students arrested in arrested by police DC protests WASHINGTON <UPil--Anti-war demonstrators filled the streets by Cliff Wintrode with logs, nails, abandoned cars and their own bodies yssterday but Special to the Observer police stopped them from crippling the government by ficing tear gas and arresting a record 7,000 persons, including protest leader Rennie WASHINGTON, D.C.-Eight Davis. people from Notre Dame were With up to 10,000 regular Army troops and Marines aiding helmeted arrested and eight more were police squads, Davis and other demonstration leaders claimed only unaccounted for yesterday after limited success in snarling rush hour traffic on Potomac River bridges a confusing day of demon­ and major streets. war IIPJnm1d•·::~ strations aimed at blocking Most of those arrested were not expected to go free in time for behind which they were corralled on a practice traffic into Washington, D.C. and protests early today. Stadium yesterday. thus halting the functions of the The protest, which launched a government. Bond for the eight third, more militant week of arrested students was set at $250. demonstrations for an early U.S. Most of those arrested spent withdrawal from Vietnam, was Protest events announced last night in a compound near the nonviolent for the most part. Robert F. Kennedy Stadium With the exception of scattered the May 5 strike and calling for advantage." where there were no sanitary incidents in frings areas, the Both SMC and ND student the entire St. Mary's community The Notre Dame-st. Mary's facilities. They were fed C­ participants offered little governments have announced of students, faculty and ad- Peace Action Committee's rations last night. Frost warnings resistance to police. plans for extensive activities for ministrators to stop normal schedule of activities for were forecast. Several hours after the streets today's moratorium. In addition business. tomorrow's Moratorium were According to two Notre Dame were cleared, Davis was picked to the activities, the American The statement signed by Kathy also announced. people who were not arrested and up by FBI agents as he walked on flag will be flown at half mast on Barlow, student body president, At 1:00 p.m. Fr. William who asked to remain uniden­ a downtown sidewald.The 30 year the main quad. and Missy Underman, student Toohey, University chaplain, will tified, police were "very in­ old veteran of many previous Paul Dziedic, Ombudsman, is body vice-president, said "The offer a Mass on the South Quad discriminate," as they tear­ antiwar campaigns, best known heading a committee which is consensus of the convocation was with the Refugee Aid Program as gassed a Methodist Church where for his role in protests during the circulating student pledge cards to participqte in this moratorium the beneficiary of the collection. many demonstrators had sought 1968 Democratic National Con­ for peace candidates. The Notre by boycotting classes in order to Following the Mass, speakers, refuge. The police had reportedly vention, was charged under a Dame student government has attend the activities scheduled including the man who wrote Sen. promised the demonstrators that federal law that prohibits con­ also proposed that the flag be for the east campus, main quad." Edward Kennedy's report on nothing would happen to them. spiracy to interfere with another flown at half mast during the · "As the elected spokesmen for . Refugee Aid and a representative The Notre Dame people reported person's civil rights. proceedings, and has printed fact the student body, we therefore from the American Friends, and being tear-gassed several times. He also was accused of sheets on the draft extension and announce that the west campus Mrs. Marece Neagu, a South Also, according to the self­ violating a law that forbids any the history of our involvement in will stop 'business as usual' on Bend resident who went to Paris named survivors, police, national intimidation or obstruction of Vietnam to be distributed Wednesday," the statement to confer with North and South guardsmen and marines nom­ federal workers. tomorrow. continued. Vietnamese Peace Conference bering 15,000 arrested almost Jerry V. Wilson, the District of After an "all-school" con­ "It doesn't matter if everyone representatives, will speak. anyone who was on the streets or Columbia police chief, told a vocation at St. Mary's attended goes to the dunes," Miss Barlow Also on the Quad, there will be sidewalks. news conference at mid­ by less than 40 students, St. replied to a question of how many a list of the non-violence study Many innocent by-standers afternoon that most of those Mary's student government students will treat the centers in the country for were reportedly arrested, in­ continued on page 6 drafted a statement supporting Moratorium day as a free day students who will not be working eluding students at Georgetown rather than a day of reflection on this summer and want to help and George Washington the war. "If one person's mind is with peace activities. According Universities who were going back changed, the Moratorium will be to Peggy Thompson, there will and forth from their classes. Pears: Students on file successful." also be a list of congressmen and The Notre -Dame 'survivors' "They have decided that a day congressional candidates who said they were "stunned" by the Security Director Arthur Pears activites and beliefs is kept. Qf information is not needed. have proposed peace measures. bond amounts and asked for Instead they plan to urge contributions from here. last night confirmed reports that According to the former Niles, student files are kept by the Mich. police chief, the FBI only students to do nothing, and to Several Congressmen were security department, but only for checks a students background mobilize this spirit in much the reported to have visited the the term of a student's when making a security em­ same way that Nixon has SENATE: There will be a compounds where the people enrollment and then only for ployment investigation or when mobilized his silent majority. meeting of the Student Senate were being detained. Other routine reports of theft and in­ the student is involved with "There should be no massive tonight, May 4, 1971, at 7:00p.m. people were reportedly being jury. something originating outside of reflection," commented Kate in the ampitheatre. held in jails in Maryland and Pears was speaking on security his campus activities. Cassidy. "If we simply do Virginia, with still more in the in general in the Keenan-Stanford Surveillance by the FBI was nothing, it will be a political 11============:::111 National Guard Armory. Hall lobby, when he said the fHes ruled out by Pears whenhe said are "thrown out after student's that the South Bend field office graduates, unless he returns for only has four or five agents, and Hoeffer graduate studies." He added that that they could "read all about it delivers An Tostal no record of a in the Observer anyway." The informal discussion began ~idiltii with a short description of the report to hall presidents security department's functions and members. Pears contrasted by Milt Jones Hoeffer also said that he felt th- it with a police department wt only ND-8MC students with saying that security's primary With Fritz Hoeffer presiding in identification cards should have concern is the protection of "life the absence of Buzz Imhoff, the been allowed into the concert in and property, and not the policing HPC held its last meeting of the Stepan Center Saturday night. He 7:00 & 10:00 films-refugee of people." year last night in Lafortune stated that if any damage had aid program: in the year He described this concern as Center. An Tostal, and student been done by the crowd, ND of the pig and once upon making sure there are smoke participation in the Kennedy students' rights to use Stepan a war, 122 hayes-healey, detectors, adherence to fire Institute and St. Vincent DePaul would have been in jeopardy. He free regulations, sufficient water Society Day were among the added that the student activity pressure and proper traffic main topics discussed. fee paid for the concert and contol for "safe pedestrian Speaking on An Tostal,Hoeffer because of these reasons the stated that most of the events concert should have been limited. 8:00 lecture--rev. robert movement" in the halls. Pears were fairly successful. He added The HPC incurred unexpected nogosek: karl rahner's condensed this to "making the Fritz Hoeffer that "the Irish Wake had too added expenses due to the con­ theology of death, most property available to the many people. We turned away · cert. Hoeffer said that he had to three events of An Tostal met engineering aiditorium. most people." The hall monitors, elderly men about 300 people." Hoeffer pay for three extra policemen with strong cirticism and and who patrol the halls late at night apologized for running out of and for the rental of Stepan added that "because this caused "smelling for smoke," were beer, and cited the fact that they Center. He then asked for ten divisiveness in what is meant to dicussed next by Pears. There hadn't estimated so large a dollars per hall to cover the bills be a unifying affair, it is my are approxiamately 18 monitors crowd as the reason why they which the Council agreed to. personal opinion that these only ordered 22 kegs. Hoeffer acknowledged that continued on page .:2.