Members of the National Lawyers Guild were on hand to make sure the protesters were treated fairly by the police.

Bernard E. Trainor, director of the National Security Program, expressed disapproval for the protesters' goals and methods.

"I am sympathetic to programs aimed at breaking the cycle of poverty and its consequences," Trainor wrote in a statement issued yesterday. "But to advocate domestic programs to the exclusion of education in public management is myopic. To do so in a fashion disruptive of the education process is fascistic."

Steven K. Singer, director of communications and public affairs for the Kennedy School, said the matter of the sit-in was "in the hands of" the Harvard University Police.

"The rest of the school is just going about its business as best they can trying to just not pay too much attention," Singer said.

Singer said he was not surprised by the protesters' attraction to the Kennedy School.

According to Singer, the Kennedy School program has provided advanced management training for 85 national security officials annually since 1984. Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf graduated from the program in 1985.

"Any time you're active at the forefront of government policy you tend to draw attention," said Singer