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Across the country, Americans last week were debating the same question. The participants included some of the leading antiwar activists of the Viet Nam War years. At a rally at Stanford, Daniel Ellsberg urged the students to "mutiny" against draft registration. At Harvard, Nobel Laureate George Wald urged a group of protesters to "take control of your lives. Learn to say no to what you know is wrong." In Philadelphia, the Central...
...feminists are torn. Many are former antiwar activists and oppose a peacetime registration and draft of any sort; at the same time, they insist on equal rights and duties for women. Said Iris Mitgang, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "I feel tested to the fullest as a feminist when asked whether women should serve. It would be inconsistent to say that my daughter should not register if my son must. And every step of my background leads me to oppose the draft." Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, argued: "If men fight...
Where are the progressive forces in the country? The antiwar movement? Why does no one speak out in response to this nonsense? Will no one look to the long run, or try for a more global perspective? Alas, the Iowa caucuses are approaching and considered rational views never bring in the votes...
...technician at the center, are just now dying down. Feather Falls is a company town, wholly owned by the Louisiana-Pacific Corp. Its 800 citizens live in white-trimmed, barn-red houses, paying an average $125-a-month rent. They did not know what to make of an antiwar activist like Rose who dressed in red flannel shirts, green silk dotted ties and baggy, unpressed jeans. His walrus mustache, gold-rimmed glasses and long brown hair brought to mind not young Dr. Kildare but Billy Shears from the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper...
...Columbia University the 1970s ended better than they began. The decade saw the campus marred by student antiwar protests and disputes with tenant neighbors in Morningside Heights. The university's cumulative deficit rose to a crunching $87.2 million, while the need for more space grew and reliance on federal dollars became burdensome. Some promising students and scholars shunned the Ivy League campus, and just talk of sharing the faculties of Columbia and Barnard colleges provoked anxiety at the distinguished sister school across the street...