Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...judge agreed not to rule a political defense out of order. Accordingly, defense witnesses spoke about what the United States had done to Vietnam and about the contributions of the Army Mathematics Research Center to doing it. Former Marines told about atrocities they'd witnessed or taken part in. Antiwar activists spoke about the effects of the war on the Vietnamese people. Daniel Ellsberg '52 sent a tape recording. At the end of the trial, the judge sentenced Armstrong to 25 years in prison, the maximum sentence...
...worked in the McGovern campaign stressed chiefly the antiwar and pro-people issues. Now the nation knows that the real issue of that campaign has finally emerged: decency...
...August morning in 1970, Antiwar Activist Karleton Lewis Armstrong was still making good his escape when he heard the bomb he had helped plant tear out the sides of the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center. Four persons were wounded and a physicist was killed. Caught in Canada early last year and finally extradited, Armstrong, 27, pleaded guilty six weeks ago in Madison, Wis., to second-degree murder and arson-but not before an unusual bit of plea bargaining. Armstrong wanted, as Attorney William Kunstler put it, "a chance to bring to his compatriots what...
...week mitigation hearing in which Armstrong was free, in effect, to put the war on trial and to use any witness he wanted. As if it were one final opportunity to explain their frustrations and rage at U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, 40 persons from all parts of the antiwar movement showed up to testify...
...bill was opposed on the final vote by a coalition of the president's supporters and antiwar congressmen who contended it would hand the president power to wage war up to 60 days without congressional approval...