"Equal Opportunity Murderers"

Shouting slogans such as "Reach out, reach out and kill someone....Join the CIA" and "Join the CIA, they're equal opportunity murderers," Cornell student protesters forced a CIA recruiter to close down his booth during a Career Fair at the Ithaca, N. Y. school

Twenty demonstrators showed up at Willard Straight Hall--the Cornell student union--to picket the presence of CIA recruiter Jim Fitzgerald, who had to leave the scene nearly one hour before the Career Fair was scheduled to end.

"We accomplished our goal (when Fitzgerald) left," said Cornell senior John A. Chanin '85, one of the protesters.

The protesters shouted at Fitzgerald, calling on him to explain CIA activities in the Third World and elsewhere.

Other protesters shouted that "murderers" should not be permitted to recruit on campus, and that people should not work for an organization of "international terrorists."

Some protesters even performed student skits designed to demonstrate CIA wrongdoing in Latin America. The Nicaraguan Affinity Group sponsored a skit which portrayed CIA agents as trenchcoated communist killers who accuse and kill an innocent Nicaraguan school teacher.

Fitzgerald did not respond to charges or questions from the crowd.

There were no arrests at the protest. However, Willard Straight Hall Director Le Norman J. Strong twice warned the protesters that they would be arrested if their demonstration did not end.

Similar protests have occurred at other campuses in recent years. At Brown University last year, students made student arrests of CIA recruiters under similar charges.

CIA recruitment in Cambridge has been fairly uneventful, as students have not protested their presence at Harvard in recent years.