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Moratorium To Meet
'Emergency Situation'

By JOHN EPPS

A National Emergency Moratorium to
protest the war in Vietnam is scheduled
for May 4.

The protest is "an emergency action to
meet an emergency situation" according
to Stephen E. Squire of the National
Student Alliance.

Demonstrations are being planned that
day in Charlottesville, but exact times
and places are not yet known.

Demonstrations Planned

Mr. Squire said the nationwide
moratorium is calling for a "one hour
no-business-as-usual series of events."
Demonstrations are planned to take place
at federal installations across the country.

The moratorium is designed to call for
a halt to U.S. bombing of North
Vietnam, the end of U.S. military aid to
the government of South Vietnam, the
resumption of the Paris Peace talks and
the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from
Indochina.

Mr. Squire said that peaceful
demonstrations are planned but if
violence should erupt "there is no way it
could come close to equalling the
violence the U.S. has caused in
Indochina."

Mr. Squire said that demonstrations in
Charlottesville will focus on the Judge
Advocate General School and against
campus ROTC buildings. Off-campus, the
demonstrations will be against federal
installations in the city.

Activities To Continue

Although the national demonstration
is aimed at only one hour of the day, Mr.
Squire said that demonstrations could last
all day and that the demonstrations in
Charlottesville will hopefully last more
than one hour.

He also expressed hope that
continuing activities will exist until the
war in Indochina ends.

"We are trying to get a large anti-war
movement started in Charlottesville
—something that has not really existed
before. There have been small groups here
before but we are trying to combine
these, to get all groups to come
together."

Mr. Squire said that new types of
protest are being explored, including
massive tax resistance and boycotts
against large corporations which
contribute to the U.S. war effort.
However, he said these types of
demonstrations require huge backing and
the anti-war movement needs greater
support before attempting this.

Support for the movement has
increased at Columbia University, where
about 50 city policeman armed with
clubs forcibly cleared antiwar protesters
from the steps of Columbia's Hamilton
Hall Tuesday as a five-day student strike
took a violent turn.

Seven minor injuries were reported
among the demonstrators and one
policeman was hurt. Police said six
persons were arrested.