Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though efforts were made in several cities this year to get Viet Nam on the ballot, only in San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass.,* were they successful. The controversial proposition was supported by jalopy cavaleades featuring psychedelic paint jobs and antiwar posters, in newspaper and radio ads and at numerous Proposition P parties...
...Congress-ten in the House and nine in the Senate-McCarthy has placed his stamp on very little legislation. To some of his colleagues, his sardonic humor is cynicism; his casualness, indifference. Though McCarthy has scant chance of winning the nomination himself, he might, by attracting a sizable antiwar and anti-Johnson vote in the primaries, focus attention on Johnson's weakness and open the way for another candidate-his friend and colleague Robert Kennedy, for example...
...President's new militancy-fueled perhaps by Democratic successes in last week's big-city elections -was aimed at both the inactive 90th Congress and the hyperactive antiwar dissenters. Other Administration voices were equally combative. Home from Southeast Asia, Hubert Humphrey was confronted by Senator J. William Fulbright during a White House briefing at which each legislator present was allowed one question. Fulbright's was: "Just who is our enemy there?" Retorted the Vice President: "You don't have to ask the G.I. whose leg has been cut off who the enemy...
...asked to explain why he continued to refuse to appear this year before the committee in a public session on Viet Nam. Rusk said he would think it over. Much more to his liking was a representation from Indiana University, where he had been heckled unmercifully last month by antiwar demonstrators. A contingent from Bloomington presented Rusk with notebooks containing an apology signed by 14,000 of the campus' 27,000 students...
...member of its Central Committee, brought off the elaborately staged affair like an experienced master of ceremonies. In a move obviously calculated to encourage dissent against the Viet Nam war in the U.S., the Viet Cong "symbolically" turned over three U.S. prisoners of war to an American antiwar activist, Thomas Hayden. The hope was, said Hieu piously, that the three soldiers would "contribute usefully" to the antiwar movements...