Word: antiwar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressman of the title story is an honorable man. He makes a sound political decision, refusing to endorse an antiwar manifesto, on grounds that it won't do any good and will only irritate his constituents. Then he discovers, when a colleague with surer instincts successfully champions the antiwar cause, that he has put a lid on his career...
...family of antiwar organizations in Cambridge has produced a new member--the New England Coalition to Free Saigon's Political Prisoners...
...Coalition's public activities so far have included publicity campaigns for antiwar programs such as last week's "No Peace, No Honor" forum at BU. The group also stages occasional guerrilla theater pieces and film showings for church and community gatherings. Plans are now hinted for a full-fledged series of demonstrations to protest activities of local businesses or organizations connected to the American involvement in South Vietnam...
...here, too, the record is discouraging. The Senate, traditionally more receptive to antiwar feelings than the House, just passed a foreign aid budget in which the largest item was aid to Indochina--much of which will be used for military or police work...
Many of the most graphic accounts of torture go back to pre-ceasefire days. But there are more than enough reports of torture since the ceasefire--stories like that of a 14-year old girl, arrested for having the sheet music for four antiwar songs, who says police stripped her, put sandbags across her body, beat her until she vomited blood, and held her prisoner for six months without ever filing charges--to indicate that prison conditions haven't changed very much. It is not entirely clear how much torture, or how much of Thieu's police and prisons...