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Show Fracas Must be Taken Lightly sibility of signing disorderly conduct con-duct complaints against some of the Peace Corps participants. Mr. Frank Holtry, who is the person charged with assault, stated that he had not started the affair, it would have been ridiculous for him to have started anything, because be-cause as he pointed out, there were at least fifty Peace Corps members present, most of whom were not Ethiopians. There were no racial overtones. According to Mr. Holtry "The matter mat-ter of race was not involved, unless of course, the Ethiopians don't happen to like white people." Peace Corps members have been highly vocal 'but somewhat inaccurate in-accurate in their communications to both the Associated Press, and the United Press International wire services. Therefore, we must view with suspicion the fact that these same Ethiopian peace corps members mem-bers are very reluctant to give any detailed account of either the fracas at Grogan's or the resulting complaints com-plaints and demands which they have submitted to Washington D.C. We have somewhat belatedly recalled re-called that it is the Chronicle's policy to cover stories fairly and from both sides. So far only the Ethiopian side has been covered. Therefore, we decided to try and interview the management at Grogan's and also the person charged with the assault. as-sault. We were successful in holding hold-ing both interviews. Because these interviews were obtained after the Chronicle deadline for submitting material, we will only outline what was said. The management at Grogan's said that the fracas was brief and unspectacular, that members of the Peace Corps had been behaving in an unruly manner for sometime before be-fore the "fight" had broken out. The manager further maintained that in view of the "unexpected and totally unwarrented publicity" that he was considering the pos- |
