Marine Private Quits BU Chapel Sanctuary

An AWOL Marine left Boston University's March Chapel late last night, only a few hours after he and another serviceman had sought sanctuary in the chapel.

A university spokesman said that Marine Pfc. Thomas Pratt, 22, left the chapel voluntarily, joined his family, and was taken to the Marine Barracks at Boston Naval Yard. An unidentified Marine captain who talked with Pratt said the man "became disenchanted with the circus atmosphere" among anti-war groups in the chapel.

Shortly after Pratt left the chapel, B.U. officials received a telephone call saying that a bomb had been put into the building. The second serviceman--Army Pfc. Raymond Kroll, 18--and the divinity students supporting him left the chapel, which the police bomb squad then searched.

In addition to the theology students, the New England Resistance and the Boston Committee of Religious Concern for Peace supported the pair in their original decision to seek sanctuary in the chapel, a student spokesman said.