Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Charlotte, N.C., the Coliseum was jammed by a crowd of 14,000 including many Negroes and students. In Salt Lake City, Nashville, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Humphrey savored cheers. After the Viet Nam speech, antiwar hecklers stilled their protests for the most part...
...Joseph Schneiders, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of South Bend, Ind., is not exactly the most popular figure in his politically conservative town. He has held antiwar meetings in the church, counseled youths on how to avoid the draft, been arrested with Negroes at a sit-in. Last July he invited Milwaukee's Father William Groppi and a contingent of his followers down to join a series of Black Power demonstrations in South Bend. Less than a month later, an arsonist hurled a Molotov cocktail at Schneiders' church, and half of it was destroyed by fire...
Currently, First Unitarian has no insurance at all, since it has been turned down by at least 13 other companies. Nor is it the only congregation with that problem: a number of churches that have been involved in antiwar activities have also had their policies canceled because the insurance companies fear the buildings might be set afire, bombed or otherwise damaged...
...James Oestereich, who was reclassified from 4D (divinity student) to 1A by his draft board last year after he turned his draft card in to the Justice Department. At least 18 other suits that question the Selective Service System's power to use the draft as punishment for antiwar activities are currently pending in federal courts. Also under attack this year are capital-punishment laws, a federal.law requiring marijuana dealers to register with the Government and an Arkansas "monkey" law that forbids the teaching of evolution in the schools of that state...
Pell said that dissatisfaction with academic credit for ROTC is linked to antiwar sentiment--a political, not academic issue that should not involve ROTC status. "The minimum military skills a student is taught in college," he said, "are not radically different from many other skills taught in the typical institution of higher learning today...