Reading and Examination Periods Drastically Reduce HMC's Events

Reading period and examinations have taken their toll on the Harvard Moratorium Committee which has scheduled - tentatively - only one activity for January.

In the only scheduled event at Harvard, Dr. Marjorie Nelson, from the Province Hospital in Quang Nai, is expected to speak on Tuesday evening, Jan. 13. Harvard will send the $3500 collected from last month's peace fast to the hospital.

For three years she has been directing the American Friends Service Committee Amputation Unit at the hospital, located only five miles from the site of the alleged Song My massacre.

During the Tet offensive in February, 1968, Dr. Nelson was captured by the NLF and held prisoner in the mountains around Hue for two months.

National moratorium activities for January 15, the anniversary of the late Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, will focus on his themes of non-violent opposition to the war, poverty, and racism.

The Mass. Moratorium Committee has made available to radio stations an hourlong tape of King's 1967 speech against the war, as well as pamphlets of his other speeches and talks. WHRB has not yet decided whether it will use the tape.

In Newton, clergymen will preach for the next two Sundays on the philosophy of non-violence. Newton's five junior high schools and two high schools will observe the moratorium with readings and discussions of King's works. Communities throughout the state plan similar activities.