Little Ironies, Bloody Heads

Before the first police sortie into Harvard Square, shortly before 8 p. m. Cambridge Police Officer Pisanitried to talk helmeted NAC demonstrators into leaving the Square. "You had a beautiful moratorium," he said repeatedly, "and now you're ruining it. I've got a boy in Vietnam, and I want this over, too."

Members of the November Action Committee and othe demonstrators were already burning trash in the streets and throwing rocks at store windows.

Pisani then handed a megaphone to an undergraduate who pleaded, "Let's go down to the river and talk about it," As some on-lookers followed the student down Boyiston Street to the river, police began their charge, cutting off both demonstrators and on-lookers.

Early in the night, police were generally restrained in their confrontations with taunting, rock-throwing demostrators. But as the night drew on, tempers wore thin, and police advances frequently degenerated into attacks on individual demonstrators.

As they cleared the Square, police burst into Massachusetts Avenue businesses, clubbing demonstrators and clientele. Six police entered the Waldorf Cafeteria in pursuit of rioters, beat the rioters to the floor, and dragged them back to the sidewalk. Waldorf customers threw chairs at the police and refused to leave the restaurant. Some administered first aid to two injured demonstrators.

In clearing the Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, police allegedly beat and injured a pregnant woman and her husband.

One Cambridge policeman pulled UPI photographer William Manning from a phone booth in Harvard Square, clubbed him to the ground, kicked him, and left him lying in the street. Manning was not seriously injured.

Retreating demostrators took up the cry "Where are your badges Where are your badges?" The first wave of police entering the Square did not wear badges.

Music From Claverly

Other cries throughout the evening were. "Free Bobby Seale," "Off the pig," and "Rook and Roll is here to stay." As rioters filtered from the Square to Mt. Auburn St. near Adams House and Claverly Hall, they began chanting. "We want music, give us some music" Claverly opened up with "Street Fighting Man," by the Rolling Stones.

Rioters broke windows in all the stores on Holyoke Street between Massachusetts Avenue and Mt. Auburn St., looting many of the stores as they went along. Saks Fifth Avenue was gutted, and window displays were stolen from Bobby Baker, the Andover Shop,and neighboring stores.

Looters were selective. Though its windows were its windows were broken, by 10 pan. nothing had been taken from J. Press.

Members of the Fly Club looked on from the club balcony, sipping drinks. A looter threw a pair of pink pants from the Andover Shop to the Clubbies.

Members of the Spee Club reportedly sat in their building with the lights off and the doors locked. "The radicals are taking over. the radicals are taking over," one said.

To the east of the Square, freshmen sat on the high brick wall on the Quiney Street side of Lamont Library, yelling at police who were held in reserve for action later in the evening. Policemen jumped up the wall, swinging their clubs at students who tried to cling to the edge before dropping down. One policeman broke his club on the wall.

Freshmen who tried to enter the locked gates around the Yard were clubbed by police in scattered incidents throughout the evening.

Mt. Auburn Street and side streets near Winthrop, Lowell, Quiney, and Adams Houses were filled with rioters, and student onlookers by 9 p. m. Police cleared Mt. Auburn to Holyoke Center and then made repeated forays in the direction of Lowell House.

In front of Holyoke Center, police emptied a car of suited middle-aged men, beat them, and sent them on their way.

As police moved cast on Mt. Auburn Street, they fired barrages of tear gas in the vicinity of the crowd. Students claimed that many of the cannisters were aimed at the far side of the crowd, cutting off their retreat from the advancing police.

Police generally fired tear gas in the air, but there were repeated reports of cannisters fired from the hip directly at demonstratora. One cannister struck a girl on Mt. Auburn St. in the leg. She was knocked down bleeding and carried off by the crowd.

Later in the night, a policeman reportedly fired a tear gas canuister in a boy's face. The boy had been standing near a trash fire in front of Kracker jacks at Mass. Ave and Plympton St. and was throwing paving stones at the store's window.

One student was reportedly carried unconscious into the residence of Lowell House Master Zeph Stewart after an early sortie on Mt. Auburn St. Police chased one demonstrator over a locked gate into the Quincy House Court Yard and proceeded to beat him before climbing back over the fence and rejoining the main body of police.

Tear gas in the vicinity of Adams, Lowell, and Quincy Houses was sometimes as thick as fog. Students repeatedly cried for water. Many held moistened towels over their mouths and noses. Small puddles of vomit dotted the streets.

In Adams House, a reception for visiting professor Lionel Trilling broke up when guests began to notice the gas. Mrs. Diana Trilling disappeared and returned with wetted towels for the company.

Playwright Arthur Kopit and author John Lahr, son of Bert Lahr, both scheduled to give speeches at the Quiney House Arts Festival at 8 p. m. last night, instead disappeared into the street with their wives.

George Wald, Higgins Profesor of Biology, was ubiquitous, seen vaulting a wall at Quincy House to prevent rioters from stoning the dining hall window, talking to students, and trying to reason with police. Given the cold shoulder by a group of helmeted troopers. Wald turned around only to meet an elderly, stooped woman guided from the cordon by a crowd of policemen. She was Jesse Whitehead, daughter of Alfred North Whitehead.

"You never miss anything, do you Jesse?" Wald said.

Rioters continually threw stones and bricks at police. Police cars met volleys of bricks, though a Boston Fire Patrol car, driven by a fireman who kept his right hand raised in the v-sign of peace. drove up and down Mass. Ave unscathed.

Police occasionally returned demon strators' volleys of bricks, A police officer in a tan sports coat with a badge picked stones off the street and threw them at retreating demonstrators near Elsie's on Mt. Auburn Street. A policeman threw a stone through a window in the Spee Club.

Robert Tonis, Chief of University Police, said that when his men tried, just before midnight, to take two students to Mass. General Hospital "people on the street broke every window and the windshield of the car." The police made it through to the hospital.

Also before midnight, three students carrying a conscious but injured boy to Stillman Infiimary in Holyoke Center were let through the police cordon on Holyoke St. Within 15 yards of the infirmary entrance, they were stopped by about six police, according to the students. one of whom shoved his club into the injured boy's groin. The group ran into the infirmary, dragging the boy with them.

At about the same time, police blocked off Freedom Square, where a whitehaired man had been dancing to Greek music in the midst of a circle of clapping demonstrators. The police began throwing gas cannisters onto the porch of Adams A and B entries. Police chased students into the entries of Harvard buildings, a practice they had avoided earlier in the evening.

Police taunted demonstrators, calling them "chicken-shits," as they chased them up the street.

As a yellow Ford tried to leave the empty Square, police formed a cordon forcing the car to a halt. A dozen police opened the doors, pulled out the driver, and beat and kicked him before letting him walk off.

Late in the night, ex-mayor Edward Sullivan was seen standing on Mass. Ave, in a riot helmet having his picture taken with a priest.