Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saying, the junior guru from Washington led the last platoon of the Nov. 27 antiwar protest march into Washington's Harrington Hotel. Later they found comfort in a plush $60-a-day suite in the Statler Hilton. In such surroundings, sprawled on couches and carpet, they held the first coeducational "soul session." One young convert, recalling with distaste an abrasive cry from some demonstrators as they marched around the White House-"Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many people did you kill today?"-suggested that the soul protester should take the long-suffering view of Lyndon's problems. Said...
Nonetheless, the agitation served to call attention to the substantial-and growing-opposition in Japan to the Viet Nam war. The giant Sohyo labor union claims to have garnered 8,000,000 signatures already on an antiwar petition. Polls show that 75% of the Japanese public opposes the bombing of North Viet Nam. "Asian problems should be solved by Asians," wrote Editorialist Shizuo Maruyama in the Japan Quarterly. Last week a group of 30 Japanese intellectuals took a full-page ad in the New York Times protesting...
...Change of Posture. Key molder of Japan's antiwar "moodo" has been the Tokyo daily press, which has consistently criticized American actions in Viet Nam while buying Hanoi's propaganda line at face value. Until recently, U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer responded with a "low posture," mildly stressing patience and asking Japanese to try to understand the American position. Then, last month, Reischauer, a student of Japanese history whose wife is a daughter of one of Japan's leading families, decided to tackle the Tokyo press head...
...ordeal of Hamp and of the officers who condemn him to death is the whole action of this painful, stirring film, which could easily have been nothing more than a sentimental antiwar movie about the little man and the big machine. But Director-Producer Joseph Losey, whose movie The Servant won eight British Film Academy nominations and four awards, has made King and Country a pity-and-terror-filled drama of death against life, and law against justice...
Sunday, November 8 LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). The Broadway cast of Oh What a Lovely War presents excerpts from their hit antiwar show...