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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol. 35. No. 13. 14 June 1972

Felt Safe

Felt Safe

Students felt safe. A cathedral was inviolate. The police would not continue their beatings and baton assaults here. They thought themselves also safe from those they called 'Muller's muggers' — the policemen dressed in garb apparently designed to make them look like students.

There was a scuffle at a side door, from which steps lead down to a parking bay marked: 'Reserved for the Archibishop.' Police charged up these steps and burst into the cathedral, dashing past the granite font and spreading into the transept crossing. The assaults inside the cathedral began.

Students fled A few followed Catherine King. 20-year-old daughter of the Dean of Cape Town, whose intimative knowledge of the building led her to the concealed seclusion of the organ loft high above the choir, where they remained [unclear: undecoted].