Newsdealers Remove Avatar From Stands

Avatar, Cambridge's underground magazine, was taken off newsstands in the Square Wednesday afternoon.

Newsstand owners were unwilling to discuss their actions. "I don't want any comment on this thing," said Angelo Caragianes, manager of Felix Newsstand. Frank Nini of Nini's Newsstand cited economic reasons for his decision, "They don't sell."

Street vendors will continue to sell Avatar in the Square. They have had no opposition as yet, although a vendor was arrested in Watertown, and later arraigned on a charge of "possessing subversive literature," according to Edward Beardsley, a spokesman for Avatar.