"As far as Women's Liberation goes," Tomasello added, "let my wife come and shovel out my driveway as well as I do-that's when there will be Women's Liberation."

According to Tonis, the Harvard police were completely surprised when the women left of their own accord. "Apparently the judge's order scared them out, that's what I think," he said.

The women were told, however- reportedly by Mary Rowe, wife of Richard R. Rowe, associate dean of the Faculty of Education- that a bust was scheduled for 2:30 p.m., and the rumor was confirmed early yesterday afternoon by an unidentified Harvard policeman.

Rowe said last night she heard the rumor from a Boston Globe reporter. Cox's press statement said only that "the planning of police action, which began in a preliminary way over the weekend, has been suspended," and he declined to comment further.

Had there been a bust, Tonis said, "They would have gone in and broken in as they had to and arrested them all, charged them with trespass, destruction of property, and also interrupting a class, which is a special state law." He added that - despite rumors that the MDC would be called in - "it would have been the Cambridge police with our assistance on the outside."

"I thought they were going to stay until the police took them out," Tonis said. "They fooled me. The police are glad. Everybody is glad."

Another source said that the charges the University is presently considering include breaking-and-entering and theft.

"Our survey shows damage and loss well into the thousands of dollars," said Maurice Kilbridge, dean of the Graduate School of Design, in a statement released at 5:30 p.m. "From an educational standpoint, a particular loss is the breakage of demonstration models used to illustrate principles of materials and structural design."

Kilbridge also charged that "steel lockers containing valuable photographic equipment were forced open and equipment removed from the building." Equipment he listed as missing includes a camera, two lenses, two projectors, four projector slide trays, sound-synchronizer control cards, and small electrical devices.

After the women left the building, a handful of Harvard policemen gathered around the locked door until a Cambridge plainclothesman broke into the building with a crowbar. One Cambridge police detective, afraid the door was sabotaged, warned a Harvard patrolman, "Be careful when you open the door. I wouldn't put anything past those bastards."

Harvard and Cambridge police, accompanied by Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, entered the building shortly after 3 p.m. They were later joined by several members of the Tactical Patrol Force. No press was permitted inside, on orders of Cox.

Several student bystanders complained that the exclusion of press would permit police to plant evidence in the building, but Cox last night discounted the charge. "The thing was not to have a whole crowd of photographers and others rushing into the building," he said, "and to make tidying up easier."

Both Steiner and Tonis denied a theory that the bust rumor was a University plant. "We had made a statement ready for 16 different contingencies," Steiner said.

Meanwhile, the women- now over 150 strong- marched down Mass Ave. to the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, often used as a meeting place by Bread and Roses, a Cambridge-based women's liberation group. The marchers circled the Square, spray-painting cars, walls, and sidewalks with the biological female symbol and liberation slogans. "The people are the great ocean- they cannot be contained," one banner read.

There were no incidents of outright violence, although several women attempted to wrest cameras away from photographers, fearing the use of pictures by police for identification purposes. One small man wearing a light tan jacket- whose camera was covered with red spray paint in a scuffie - later joined police back at the vacated building.