SPEAK UP FOR VIETNAM
ing commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death in Alicante prison of the poet, Miguel Hernandez.
On the. following day they decided to conduct an unlimited strike until the three representatives of the Democratic Union are freed.
After holding a "free assembly,"
the students massed in the office of the dean. Furniture and windows were broken under the pressure of the crowd. A portrait of Generalissimo Franco did not escape damage.
The police thereupon charged the students with clubs. They were met with a hail of stones.
About ten students were arrested and a number were injured.
Another "free assembly" was then called for the next day to protest the role of "American imperialism in Vietnam."
In various parts of Spain, students have recently been picking up the Vietnamese issue. On May 17, for instance, a crowd of about 200 students marched through the streets of Barcelona, shouting: "Vietnam si! Yankee no!"
Seven of them were arrested by the police following the demonstration, including a French and two German students.
Students at the University of Barcelona protested these arrests by calling a strike. The police moved against them twice on May 19.