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<br />• Sunday, January 28, 1979 The Chapel Hill NEwspaper ~ A
<br />Against Shah, Recruiting
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<br />By FRED VtJLTEE
<br />Staff Writer
<br />A group of about si: demonstrators
<br />charted, marebed and agitated on the
<br />UNC campus Friday in a rally against t2re
<br />present Iranian gover~mnent and against a
<br />Navy recruiting officer who was on
<br />campus at the taus.
<br />"We hied to show the real dose link'.
<br />between military recruiting and op-
<br />pression iA Iran, sold Bob SheldoA,
<br />spokesman far the 1Y'iangie area d~apter
<br />of the Revolutionary Communist Youth
<br />Brigade. (RCYB), one of the groups which
<br />sponsored the ra1>,Y•~`Im~ 1a11a differ
<br />here, ePpress(ng
<br />ways,:' he added.
<br />'.People less and less Nava this ferverd
<br />patriotism," .Sheldon said. "They're
<br />searching far gnawers. We don't win
<br />people automatlcall,Y, bu! when you teII
<br />.people she truth about events and show
<br />what's happened, their oonsdeacea will
<br />crack a little more."
<br />The rally, which begaA la the Ptt nod to
<br />the 5tuderd Unloa around noon, was abw
<br />sponsored by the February 7Ath coalition.
<br />According to leaflets distributed doting
<br />the rally, this group Ls composed of the
<br />RCYB, National ' UAited Workers
<br />Association. Vietnam Veteraps Against
<br />the War, the Iranian Students Assodatian
<br />and the Revolutionary Communist Party.
<br />The rally began with "agitation" try
<br />Stieldan, who exhorted the tmonthne crowd
<br />to "fight capitalism and institute
<br />sxiallscA, the rule of the people." He
<br />called the IraniaA situation "the focal
<br />point for gouth to see the true nature of
<br />American imperial4sm."
<br />IraniaAS are deatroying the "hated
<br />symbols of American imperialism -the
<br />porno theatre, the Papal trncke," StteldoA
<br />told the growing crowd. He sad other
<br />RCYB meAtbers present chanted "Death. .
<br />death, death to the Shah, wherever he ls"
<br />and other slogans as they marched into the
<br />Pine Room cafeteria le 1.eAOir Halt
<br />Lundstbae eustamere there did not
<br />receive the message with emhusiasm. One
<br />heckler shouted "food iighl," while
<br />another urged them to "felts it to the Pit,
<br />mate.„
<br />'I don't : 'said Idea Garofalo. who
<br />was dining In the Pine Room when the
<br />opf hearing about iR 'They ought to juat~
<br />out the intormatloa and let people dadde
<br />Eor themselves." .
<br />The processioA met a similar rpceptlara
<br />hr tfw Student UnioA soaek bar. where
<br />students responded b piayipg the dlace
<br />tune "Freak OuY' an the lnkebo:.l;Yfoets
<br />by the RYCB to unplug the device were th-
<br />~rerted. •
<br />"We decided we dicbr't weal to hear
<br />this." satd Page Ilavts, a UNC Junior who
<br />stood near the Jaketia>r "People started
<br />coming up and giving us rptarters, ao wa
<br />put a dollar in."
<br />Sheldon said in 8A 3Atetroiew afterward
<br />that the seeRilngly Aegatlve reaction was
<br />not a bad saga. "A woman came up to ma
<br />in the Union aAd said 'we support You.
<br />keep oA talking,"' he said. "I think some
<br />people were a little frightened to come out
<br />and support us." Iie felt the overall
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<br />reactloA to the demonstration was
<br />"probably good.,. .
<br />From the Student Union the rgaz+eh
<br />proceeded to the PIt again. where another
<br />speaker eslwrted the crowd to "go teLL tlils
<br />recruiter what we think of him." During
<br />the Vietnam war. the speaker said.
<br />°st~ents made themselves heard. We
<br />have the same respoasitellty today...
<br />Chanting "Naval recruiters oB campus
<br />Aow," the RCYB members, dragging an
<br />effigy of the shah, marched to Hanes Hall
<br />"1Le Stars and Stripes stands !or the
<br />Navy recruiter !n this buildlAg right now:
<br />a marcher said, while soother one burned
<br />an AmerlcaA flag. "He's luring Americas
<br />youW with offers of e;dtement and goad
<br />mllfarchers limbed to the second floor of
<br />Hann, 3nlep~ir4g ta,present the reci'u~ter.
<br />with the flag's ashes. However, the Navy
<br />tepreseolatlve was out of the building at
<br />the time. He could not be reached later for
<br />asmment
<br />Campus ponce recdved °a lot of cam-
<br />plalnts" aboulthe protest, said patrolman
<br />A.L. O'DanieL He asid that classes iu
<br />campus buildings were 6rang disturbed by
<br />away.
<br />Sheldon said the group has already
<br />recdlved a perAilt for its plamted march iR
<br />Wilmington Feb. 24. which will protest the
<br />shipment of arms to Iran firm North
<br />CaroliAa ports.
<br />Demon9trstore Burn Flag 1ln Front Of Hanes Hall
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