Ford promised that the statement would be read at the Committee on Research Policy meeting. and added that no decision would be reached at that meeting.

There was a brief period of silence, and then Sheppard started a chant, "Stop Cam." The demonstrators filed through Ford's office on their way out of the building. One student carried on his shoulder a briefcase with the sticker "BAN DDT."

Ford held an impromptu press conference as the demonstrators filed out. He asked reporters if the marching was going on in other parts of the building and was told it was not.

He said the group was "a perfectly orderly but large delegation." In response to a question. he said those involved "didn't sound like the same people" who invaded the Center Thursday.

"As of now." Ford said. "I don't have a strong moral feeling about the Project." but such a feeling "might develop as we hear more about the Project" He also said he has "moral reservations against any philosophy saying that the assemblage of knowledge" is evil in itself.

He added that he was "unable to define the other addressees" in the NAC statement- "your allies in the Department of Defense and the social science academies and. . . bosses in the Harvard and other corporations." Therefore, he said. he could not "pass the message" to them as the statement asked.

Back outside. the demonstrators listened to more speeches. One WSA woman told the crowd she had seen a frightened secretary inside the building holding a letter opener and a pair of seissors for defense. The meeting broke up a few minutes later.