Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wavering voters were given little guidance by a monsoon of out-of-state luminaries who came in to help both candidates. Bobby Kennedy, who has consistently capitalized on antiwar sentiment, talked briefly about Viet Nam in terms that implied agreement with Hatfield rather than Democrat Duncan...
...sooner had Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled a November lecture at Cornell University because of "conflicts of schedule" than a Vietnik coed fired off a letter to the Cornell Daily Sun charging that the Secretary was plain afraid of all the antiwar pickets his appearance would attract. Cornell Sophomore Richard Rusk sent the Sun a sonly note of his own. "I can assure you that the reasons for his cancellation are legitimate," wrote Richard. "Being on more intimate terms with Mr. Rusk, I think it is possible that the Secretary might muster up his courage and run the gauntlet...
Inevitably, the war in Viet Nam has turned playwrights into polemicists. Last week three different antiwar plays attacked the problem - often with high emotion, sometimes with low taste...
...Moral Certainty. The most immediate result of Hatfield's antiwar stand was, in fact, to bring Democratic Representative Robert Duncan charging into the senatorial race. A firm supporter of the President's conduct of the war, Duncan, 45, felt that Hatfield's position could not go uncontested, and he left a safe constituency to take on the Governor. "I am morally certain," he says, "that if we withdraw, we will be involved in a third world war with Communist China. I'm convinced that if we stand firm, we'll bring to Southeast Asia...
Though previously little known outside his southern Oregon district, Duncan, a former seaman who still wads his cheeks with snuff and misses no chance to brag about his Scottish ancestry, received nationwide publicity in his primary battle against antiwar Candidate Howard Morgan (TIME, June 3), whom he trounced by an almost 2-to-l margin. Since then, shuttling weekly between House and home, Duncan has become, in his words, "practically a permament resident of United Air Lines...