Before the first police sortie into Harvard Square, shortly before 8 p. m. Cambridge Police Officer Pisanitried to talk helmeted NAC demonstrators into leaving the Square. "You had a beautiful moratorium," he said repeatedly, "and now you're ruining it. I've got a boy in Vietnam, and I want this over, too."

Members of the November Action Committee and othe demonstrators were already burning trash in the streets and throwing rocks at store windows.

Pisani then handed a megaphone to an undergraduate who pleaded, "Let's go down to the river and talk about it," As some on-lookers followed the student down Boyiston Street to the river, police began their charge, cutting off both demonstrators and on-lookers.

Early in the night, police were generally restrained in their confrontations with taunting, rock-throwing demostrators. But as the night drew on, tempers wore thin, and police advances frequently degenerated into attacks on individual demonstrators.

As they cleared the Square, police burst into Massachusetts Avenue businesses, clubbing demonstrators and clientele. Six police entered the Waldorf Cafeteria in pursuit of rioters, beat the rioters to the floor, and dragged them back to the sidewalk. Waldorf customers threw chairs at the police and refused to leave the restaurant. Some administered first aid to two injured demonstrators.

In clearing the Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, police allegedly beat and injured a pregnant woman and her husband.

One Cambridge policeman pulled UPI photographer William Manning from a phone booth in Harvard Square, clubbed him to the ground, kicked him, and left him lying in the street. Manning was not seriously injured.

Retreating demostrators took up the cry "Where are your badges Where are your badges?" The first wave of police entering the Square did not wear badges.

Music From Claverly

Other cries throughout the evening were. "Free Bobby Seale," "Off the pig," and "Rook and Roll is here to stay." As rioters filtered from the Square to Mt. Auburn St. near Adams House and Claverly Hall, they began chanting. "We want music, give us some music" Claverly opened up with "Street Fighting Man," by the Rolling Stones.

Rioters broke windows in all the stores on Holyoke Street between Massachusetts Avenue and Mt. Auburn St., looting many of the stores as they went along. Saks Fifth Avenue was gutted, and window displays were stolen from Bobby Baker, the Andover Shop,and neighboring stores.

Looters were selective. Though its windows were its windows were broken, by 10 pan. nothing had been taken from J. Press.

Members of the Fly Club looked on from the club balcony, sipping drinks. A looter threw a pair of pink pants from the Andover Shop to the Clubbies.

Members of the Spee Club reportedly sat in their building with the lights off and the doors locked. "The radicals are taking over. the radicals are taking over," one said.

To the east of the Square, freshmen sat on the high brick wall on the Quiney Street side of Lamont Library, yelling at police who were held in reserve for action later in the evening. Policemen jumped up the wall, swinging their clubs at students who tried to cling to the edge before dropping down. One policeman broke his club on the wall.