Colleges Reopen; Protests Continue All Over Nation

Although 100 colleges re-opened yesterday, protests against U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia continued with more than 164 universities remaining on strike indefinitely.

Six American soldiers yesterday refused to make a combat assault into Cambodia. A spokesman for the U.S. 4th Infantry Division said the six have been restricted to their company pending an investigation.

Meanwhile the Cambodian government yesterday launched a campaign to rid the country of its more than 500,000 Vietnamese citizens. A flotilla of 140 ships was dispatched from South Viet Nam to begin picking up the refugees at Phnom Penh.

In Washington, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved over-whelmingly legislation barring funds for all future U.S. military action in Cambodia.

Boston

In Boston most colleges remained on strike with the exception of Bentley College which went off strike yesterday. Administrators at Northeastern last night lifted a curfew which had been imposed after last weekend's rioting.

And New York

In New York City, confrontation between blue-collar workers and college students resumed yesterday when 2000 construction workers marched again to City Hall and hurled insults at Pace College students.

Also in New York, the Board of Education directed that all 17 city colleges be reopened for classes. Three other New York colleges reopened when the Young Americans for Freedom threatened to file suits for tuition losses.

Classes also resumed at state universities in California by order of Governor Ronald Regan. However protests in California continued. A University of California student, the son of a retired Navy captain, died yesterday, a day after he set himself on fire to protest the war.

On the high school level, strikes were losing momentum as school officials began to take disciplinary action. In Massachusetts, approximately 200 Tewksbury High Schools students were given three-day suspensions for their Friday protest.