Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Appointees Griffin Bell and Lewis Morgan, held that Tuttle's dissent was too restrictive on the lawmakers, since there is nothing in the Georgia constitution to compel the house to seat a member "if a reasonable basis . . . exists for the denial." Bond's endorsement of the strident antiwar policy of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, said the two judges, is such a reasonable basis...
...mainly to a call for loyalty to Wilson and the defense of government policies. Moreover, to add to Labor's troubles, a red-bearded left-wing journalist named Richard Gott. 27, entered the race. One of the new breed of folksong-singing Britniks, whose counterparts are American college antiwar protesters, Gott campaigned only on one issue: "Stop the Labor government's support of the U.S. war in Viet Nam." His avowed aim was to draw 1,000 votes away from the Labor candidate, and it looked as if he might succeed-to the advantage of the Conservatives...
...Your story should make every draftee and antiwar demonstrator realize that our leaders are not inhuman warmongers. The courage, loyalty, faith and determination of the U.S. serviceman have been demonstrated since 1776 and are being shown right now in South Viet...
Determined to milk as much benefit as possible from U.S. antiwar demonstrations, the Viet Cong last week freed two G.I.s especially with the Vietnik audience in mind. The men were Staff Sergeant George E. Smith, 27, and Specialist Fifth Class Claude McClure, 25, both of whom had been Communist prisoners for more than two years. The Viet Cong delivered them, well fed and in apparent good health, to a Cambodian border post only a few hours after a V.C. radio station had broadcast that the G.I.s were being released "as a response to the friendly sentiments of the American people...
...Germany-as saying that Smith had helped him escape from a cave in which they were both imprisoned, heroically sacrificing his own chance for freedom. And the parents of the two men reported that up to the moment of their release their letters had never reflected strong antiwar views...