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This Sunday there will be a "Dump Nixon" rally in Providence, Rhode Island, organized by Allard Lowenstein, who organized the successful "Dump Johnson" movement in 1968. Congressmen Bella Abzug, Donald Riegel, and Pete McClosky, and Senators Birch Bayh and Edmund Muskie are co-sponsoring the rally, which will be held on the steps of the State House beginning at 4 p. m. Alex Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Paul Butterfield will also be on hand, apparently to show people that protest politics can be entertaining...
...April 24 mass demonstration, billed as legal and peaceful, has drawn the support of many liberal congressmen, including New York Democrats Bella Abzug and Benjamin Rosenthal, and Democratic Senators Philip Hart of Michigan, Vance Hartke of Indiana, Harold Hughes of Iowa, Edmund Muskie of Maine, and George McGovern of South Dakota. Retired Army General Hugh Hester and New York Mayor John Lindsay have also endorsed the April 24 antiwar demonstration, NPAC organizers hope to draw as many as half a million people to the Washington and San Francisco rallies...
...number of possible reforms-ranging from a one-year extension of Nixon's power to draft men to the actual abolition of the draft-were discussed at yesterday's hearings in the Hebert committee. Bella Abzug (D-N. Y.) testified yesterday that the draft was "slavery," and as such, should be ended...
...attendance figures, were a big question mark, and the organizers on the Teach-In Committee worried. They needn't have. For crowds of people crammed into Sanders Theatre Monday night, overflowing into other lecture halls. They came to see Eugene McCarthy, in silverpointed elegance. They came to hear Bella Abzug and TomWicker and Noam Chomsky and the rest of the star-studded cast. Vietnamization had pushed the spectre of death away from their side, and sophisticated news management, trickling pre-invasion news from Laos to avoid the Cambodia-style bang and squelching further reports to starve popular criticism, had threatened...
...were silent at the Monday teach-in. As soon as Bella Abzug, in a floppy orange hat, mounted the stage, the crowd began to clap. And the applause broke loose as McCarthy, hair gleaming, face grinning, strode to his seat. The applause quieted but the buzz remained; and the applause was always ready to burst free again. On the Queenfor-a Day popularity register, two sorts of remarks scored highest: the humorous and the radical. In her New York accent. Abzug-who twice raised a weak fist and pulled it down in hasty embarrassment-revealed that she "only went...