THE WORLD TODAY Wisconsin Guard clashes with students

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN (UPI) National Guardsmen tossing tear gas grenades and carrying fixed bayonets clashed with student strikers yesterday in the fifth day o f disorders on the University o f Wisconsin campus. Wisconsin National Guardsmen, part o f a contingent o f 900 ordered out by Gov. Warren P. Knowles to quell disruption o f school activities, moved into action to disperse strikers when they blocked traffic on busy U.S. 12 which cuts through the heart o f the univerity campus. Student strikers, an estimated 400 strong, were bested and sea tered in a series o f scuffles with bayonet packing guardsmen and police wielding night sticks. Striking students see the guardsmen as another, more om inous sym bol o f “racist oppression.” But students attending classes yesterday generally expressed gratitude for the presence o f the troops. “ I think it’s disgusting,” a striking girl student said. “ I feel as if I’m in an occupied country.” Her bearded friend said, “This is just like being in Nazi Germ any.” But a freshman in fashion design, whose parents are threatening to take her from the campus for her own protection, said she was very glad the guardsmen were here. “ 1 want to be protected,” she said. The com m ents were terse, with strikers calling guardsmen “ Fascist pigs” and racists.” Two long-haired students approached a guardsmen, pointed to his bayonet and asked him, “Are you going to use that thing today?” “ I sure hope n o t,” the guardsman said. A m otoroist in an autom obile on University avenue, which was packed with milling students, said he didn’t have much opinion about having guardsmen on the campus, but he sure wished there were som e guardsmen where he was. “ It was a good idea to bring in the guard when they did ,” said a law student from Fort Atkinson. “There might have been bloodshed otherw ise.” But a senior coed said, “ As far as bringing the National Guard in, I think the timing was bad. There have been a lot o f rumors about violence on the campus, but I don’t think they’re true.”