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. L 9 J ! b 2 5 April 1972 I e.. .. . . .. . - SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT c .. The s p r i n g fires of protest have been ignited o n college campuses . across the nation triggered in l a r g e p a r t by the resumption of American bombing in North Vietnam. e8 k. . - The National Student Associatiqn reacted to the renewed bomb- ing b y holding a n emergency meeting at their Washington, D.C. head- q u a r t e r s on April 15. As a result of this meeting, a nationwide campus s t r i k e that w a s not highly successful w a s staged on 21 April to p r o t e s t . the escalation of the war. In addition, NSA planned and scheduled a nationwide moratorium action f o r the f i r s t of May. mP- a t i;tct - Activists across the United States w e r e urged by radical l e a d e r s to u s e their collective skills to organize and energize sustained inten- s i v e antiwar actions during the ensuing s p i i n g and s u m m e r months. . It appears that rekindled interest in antiwar demonstrations of possible increased intensity will plague American college campuses f o r the next 60 days. In the past week in fact s e v e t d active campuses have experienced civil disobedience which erupted into violence and resulted in numerous arrests, property damage, and personal injuries. mt'r 8;; . - With the prospect of the Republican and Democratic Conventions looming in the not too distant future, American revolutionaries it seems will not pass up a n opportunity to u s e the collective college protests as a n additional l e v e r to r e d r e s s their grievances and gain stated goals. A new generation of campus radicals, quiet for the past y e a r now appears e a g e r to be heard.