Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked if he though civil rights leaders should voice their opinions on the war in Vietnam, as Dr. Martin Luther King recently did, Rustin said that King's antiwar statement should not be judged according to its political consequences, but as a statement of principle...
...sincerely hope that no one will try to prevent this meeting from being what it should be: a confrontation between the administration and the antiwar movement," the statement concludes
...Hanoi hotel during an alert, Salisbury bumped into four visiting U.S. women who belong to such organizations as the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Due next week are several clergymen, including U.S. Pacifist A. J. Muste, who has led antiwar rallies in New York, Washington and Saigon. Though the ladies and the preachers were traveling without clearance from the State Department, a total of 57 Americans-47 of them newsmen-have validated passports to visit the North. So far, Hanoi has agreed to admit only two-Salisbury and Louis Lomax, a Negro...
...rehashing all the old arguments, and the issue is losing its emotional kick. Frustrated by the difficulty of "escalating protest," a Yale senior sighs: "This Government is committed to this madness, so what can you do?" The University of Wisconsin still manages to muster some 400 students for antiwar rallies, but most protests elsewhere take the forlorn form of silent vigils...
Like the anti-Castro fugitives from Cuba, the Vietnamese bicker about politics back home. Publications written for Vietnamese in Paris cover every political viewpoint. Though Viet Cong agents provide them with constant propaganda, the vast majority of the colony is antiCommunist. Most, however, are antiwar and vaguely leftist...