NAC Members to Occupy M. I. T. Offices Tomorrow

About 250 members of the November Action Coalition (NAC) met yesterday to discuss the disruptive demonstration which the group will stage at M. I. T., beginning tomorrow.

The NAC plans to occupy offices in M. I. T.'s Center for international Studies (CIS) and in the M. I. T. administration building for parts of tomorrow afternoon. The group will then spend the night in the M. I. T. student center and decide there what actions to take the following day.

The specific demand of the NAC is the termination of seven projects at M. I. T. which are related to the U. S. Department of Defense. But the broader goal of the actions at M. I. T., one spokesman for the Coalition said yesterday, is "to help raise the cost of the Vietnam War to M. I. T. and to the federal government which runs it."

Demonstrators-the NAC hopes for at least 1000-will rally at noon tomorrow on M. I. T. s Kresge Plaza, according to the plan accepted at yesterday's all day meeting at M. I. T. About 1 p.m. the group will march to the CIS offices on the third and fourth floors of the Hermann Building; they will occupy the offices until about 2:30. If certain professors "doing the worst work" at the CIS refuse to leave their offices when asked, they will be ejected, the NAC spokesman said.

NLF Flag

An NLF flag will be flown from the top of the Hermann Building. The NAC staged a similar disruption of the CIS-but without ejections and without the flag-on October 10.

From the CIS the demonstrators will march back to the administration building and occupy selected offices there until 4 p.m., closing time. The offices of president Howard W. Johnson and provost Jerome Wiesner will be among those occupied. The same policy on evictions will be employed in the administration offices as at the CIS.

The group will then proceed to M. I. T.'s student center, which will be converted for the duration of the M. I. T. actions into

a "movement center." There may be actions against M. I. T laboratories along the route that are subcontracted by General Electric, whose workers are striking nationally.

Music, films, and talk will fill the student center tomorrow night. Those present will decide on strategy for the next day, with a militant picket line around M. I. T. s Instrumentation Laboratories, beginning at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, as the most likely action.

Possible Police

A distinct possibility exists that M. I. T. president Johnson will call the police to stop some of the NAC actions. "We here at M. I. T. will take whatever action is necessary to stop these totalitarian tactics from destroying the Institute," he wrote to the M. I. T. General Assembly last Wednesday.

The project which the NAC is demanding be shut down are the Cambridge Project, the Com-Com Project, and the International Communism Project, at the CIS; research on MIRV and on a stabilization system for helicopters, at the Instrumentation Labs; and work on the ABM and the Moving Target Indicator radar system, at the Lincoln Lab.

M. I. T.'s Science Action Coordinating Committee (SACC) announced last Friday its agreement with the NAC demands. The committee added, however, that no change "will come about through the violent, though heroic, actions of a few." SACC will hold a rally against M. I. T.'s war-related research at 10 a.m. tomorrow at Kresge Plaza.

The executive committee of M. I. T.'s Inter-Fraternity Conference voted last week to support "the NAC's non-violent actions." But Harvard SDS and the Student Mobilization Committee have decided neither to support nor to condemn the actions.

A recent statement by Rosa Luxemburg SDS at M. I. T.-whose members belong to the NAC-said, "We do not intend to do physical damage to any part of the Institute [tomorrow] -under no circumstances will we initiate violence against anyone... If attacked we will attempt to minimize the violence, It necessary, we will defend ourselves when attacked...

"Such action is a necessity if we are ever to end the war in Vietnam and American imperialism in general," the statement added. "It is not sufficient to have peaceful demonstrations such as the October 15 moratorium... the people who control this country... will only stop the war and imperialism when it is easier for them to do this than to continue. We can bring this day closer... by raising the cost of the war at home."