Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effects of the war was extended unexpectedly when Mendelsohn's party was trapped in Saigon for ten days by the Tet offensive. "We saw the war a lot closer than we had planned," Mendelsohn recalls now. Upon his return, Mendelsohn embarked on his long, sometimes lonely campaign of putting antiwar resolutions before the Harvard faculty. Last December, during the peak of the carpet-bombing in Indochina, Mendelsohn, a vice president, and six other members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) introduced to the AAAS governing council an unprecedented "emergency motion" for a strong condemnation...
Miller joined antiwar activist Dr. Benjamin Spock, civil rights veteran Mary P. Peabody, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Jonathan Kozol '58, author of Death at an Early Age, in announcing the "non-violent, non-vindictive, non-belligerent" action...
...still swept 90 per cent of the vote in Madison's student wards, enough to carry him to victory in the city as a whole. The outgoing mayor, apparently unconvinced by militants' complaints about Soglin, had the outgoing deputy police chief remove the files on radicals and antiwar militants--reportedly including Soglin--before Soglin could take office...
...down to Washington to lobby for some new buses. But the main issue confronting Madison--the issue which focused some national attention on Madison this summer--is the trial of Karleton Armstrong who has acknowledged bombing the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center, long a target for antiwar agitation because research done there found wide application in the Indochina war, in 1970. A researcher was killed in the bombing, and Armstrong pleaded guilty of second-degree murder in exchange for the opportunity to present a political defense...
Accordingly, a series of defense witnesses--former Marines who say they committed or saw atrocities during their service in Vietnam, antiwar activists, a tape recording of Daniel Ellsberg '52--have supported Armstrong's contention that the real criminals, people whose bombs killed not one unfortunate researcher but hundreds of thousands of innocent people, not only go unpunished but continue to hold the highest offices in the country. "At this point," Paul Soglin said during his election campaign, in a statement he has continued to uphold since, "it would be the height of hypocrisy to abandon Karleton Armstrong. Whether Armstrong...