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...most sensitive issue concerned Viet Nam draft evaders and deserters. Sam Brown, 32, once a prominent leader of the antiwar movement and now state treasurer of Colorado, argued for full pardons. After some amiable maneuvering between Brown and Atlanta Attorney Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief spokesman on the platform committee, another compromise emerged. A blanket pardon would be promised to draft dodgers, but treatment of those who actually deserted from military service would be considered "on a case-by-case basis." Said Brown: "I am not enthusiastic about this language, but it is the position of our candidate...
...FACULTY'S recent decision to allow Harvard students to cross-register in the ROTC program at MIT is an unacceptable one. The student antiwar movement which forced ROTC off campus in that late '60s held that there should be no connection between the university and the military; that contention seems as valid today...
...they began to send off letters--to officials on all levels of government, to soldiers in Michael's outfit who were still in Vietnam, to others left with empty spaces in their lives by the continuing carnage. They placed advertisements in Iowa newspapers protesting against the war. Peg attended antiwar rallies, including the 1971 Mayday march on Washington, while Gene, more retiring, argued with local American Legionaries and doubters at the tractor factory where he worked the afternoon shift in addition to farming...
...cluttered with correspondence, the Mullens juxtaposed letters in revealing ways. General William C. Westmoreland wrote, "In Vietnam today brave Americans are defending the rights of men to choose their own destiny and to live in dignity and freedom." One of Michael's own letters said, in reference to the antiwar protest in the United States, "Most of the grunts (infantrymen), E-6's and below, are pulling that things get wilder at home...
...guilty in Washington contrast with the decent in Iowa--and elsewhere in the vast coalition of rage which formed the basis of the antiwar movement. Never before in history has a popular upsurge of such dimensions limited and eventually helped to end a foreign war. Bryan rightfully celebrates the movement's victories; amid the present lethargy it is well to remember that unprecedented numbers of Americans had the courage to challenge their deepest beliefs. An age of innocence has passed forever, and the liars will have a harder time of it the next time around. The Cold Warriors, as John...