Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grievous Deception. In Congress, where roughly one-fifth of the House and one-third of the Senate remain opposed to the war, most of the critics feel that their efforts have been futile, and have fallen silent. The most articulate of the antiwar Senators, Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, concedes that the voices of dissent have not generated much volume. Last week he warned Moscow, Peking and Hanoi that they would be "grievously deceiving themselves if they underestimated the militant spirit" in the U.S. "I don't believe the President is isolated," said Fulbright. "The Congress...
...Communist." Now, he wisely has little to say about the war except that "we have to find some way to solve it." After visiting his mother in Memphis, he hopes to get a job teaching Mandarin, lead "a quiet life" with his family. As for civil rights or antiwar demonstrations, he says that he wants no part of them. After more than 15 years with the Chinese Communists, Clarence Adams feels that he needs a rest from polemics...
...onetime Greenwich Village ball room, were 1,000 delegates and ob servers attending the first open con gress held by the U.S. Communist Party in seven years. The Reds' aim during the five-day conference was to rebuild their fading cause by publicly exploiting the country's antiwar, civil rights and allied New Left movements...
...hopefuls figure that opposition to the war may nonetheless prove the open-sesame to office-despite powerful evidence to the contrary in Oregon last month, where Democrat Robert Duncan won a hand some victory in the senatorial primary by strongly supporting the Administration on Viet Nam. Most of the antiwar candidates, however, are underdogs, who have taken heart from the 7% decline (to 47%) since April in nationwide approval of Lyndon Johnson's execution...
...seizing on Viet Nam as a long-shot bet, these candidates have inverted most of the standard political equations. In some races, Republicans are the soft-liners and Democrats the hardliners; in others, antiwar Democrats are running on anti-Administration platforms against Republicans who go all the way with L.B.J. Bitterest of all are the primaries, in which the war has Democrats clawing at Democrats and Republicans at Republicans...