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Unlike the antiwar protesters of a decade ago, most of whom were young, white and middleclass, the freeze movement has attracted followers from across the socioeconomic spectrum. So far, this has been a source of vitality and political strength. But with upwards of 100 organizations either participating in this weekend's rally or lending their support, divisions have inevitably begun to appear. Notably absent on June 12, for instance, will be representatives of the Washington, D.C.-based Ground Zero, which has done much to stir national concern over nuclear arms. Explains Founder Roger Molander: "We are trying to maintain...
...only authorized antiwar movement in Moscow is the Kremlin-run Soviet Peace Committee, which claims to have 80 million members. Last week eleven young scientists and engineers announced the creation of an independent movement. They read an appeal, already mailed to President Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet newspapers, calling upon the governments of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to stop denouncing each other. They asked for an uncensored flow of information between Western and Soviet peace groups. The Kremlin is unlikely to welcome an unfettered peace group, however small and softspoken. But in view of its stentorian approval of peace activists...
...towns and cities that held Ground Zero observances, markers were installed, each signifying the center of a 12-sq.-rrfi. circle of total destruction that a one-megaton warhead would wreak. Around the Ground Zero spot in Billings, Mont., a mime group per, formed an antiwar piece; in neighboring North Dakota, 600 people in Grand Forks applauded a speaker's suggestion that the Government dismantle one of the state's 300 Minuteman missiles as a symbolic peacemaking gesture...
...first antiwar groups he mentions are the "Maoist Progressive Labor Party," the "Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party," and the "Moscow-oriented Communist Party," three groups about as influential in the struggle as "past winners, Pillsbury Bake-Off" and the Kiwanis Club. "All the Communist groups worked on increasingly close terms with the non-Communist radicals who made up the ever-swelling constituency of what had only recently become known as the New Left or the Movement," he says...
...more brutal than in other wars, atrocities like My Lai were rare, and we did not violate the international rules of war too often. So who cares? That we were brutal in Korea is no excuse for Vietnam-cruelty is not governed by rules of precedent. And the antiwar movement paid much less attention to the My Lai's and Son My's than it did to the day-in and day--out operation of the war. Nothing Podhoretz says matters...