Word: antiwar
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...past wrote a book about his experiences. Tim O'Brien, a graduate student in Government, published If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship Me Home, an account of his changing perceptions of bravery and cowardice after he was drafted out of the antiwar movement at Macalester College in 1968. Still, O'Brien wrote reluctantly as many soldiers who write...
...Thieu regime, the adoptive American parents of these children have felt dogged by hostility. The Catholic Relief Services and the American Friends Service Committee--groups that might have been involved in the airlift in Vietnam--refused to have any part in it. The revolutionary government in South Vietnam, various antiwar groups in the United States and "Doonesbury" joined the list of those who condemn the adoption of war orphans and question the motives of their American families. These parents were accused of eleventh-hour guilt reactions, robbing Vietnam yet again of its natural resources and violating the Geneva convention that...
...adoptive mother of seven children, three of them Vietnamese, says. "You have to have an interest in the country and a delight in the child for what he is." Lazare says that most of the parents she knows well who have adopted Vietnamese children were involved in the antiwar movement but, she adds, politics was not their sole motivation for adoption. "Those people would find that they could help the children in other ways," she says...
...abandon it." Not by violence, however. Anarchists like the 19th century Frenchmen FranÇois Ravachol, and Edouard Vaillant who tossed a bomb into the National Assembly, assumed that bombs and bullets would be necessary to free mankind. Hess, who has been arrested three times for participating in an antiwar demonstration, is willing to forgo force in favor of example. Like many a true believer, he is convinced that the world is changing in his direction. Says he, with a smile: "You'll be here with me sooner or later...
...survived the McCarthy era much more intact than our generation has survived the disappointments of the civil-rights movement and the antiwar movement. Seeger was also able to resist the trend towards conservatism that claimed many of his contemporaries. Old leftists are usually today's liberals. As Phil Ochs sang in "Love Me, I'm a Liberal...