Word: antiwar
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...Rubin seemed headed. He wrote to a dozen publishers, but he had no reputation, no work to show and no agent. Most houses "would write back and say, 'Sorry, fella, no one wants to buy a first novel about Viet Nam.' " Eventually, George Braziller, publisher of the antiwar book 365 Days, and Edward Seaver, his fiction editor, saw half of the final draft and advised Rubin to keep polishing. So did Wife Maura, whose job as a consultant for conservation groups in Washington allowed Rubin to stay home in Alexandria, Va., and write...
...Cambodian people." Most Americans didn't know that their planes had been bombing Cambodia for over a year. But some Kent State students got angry enough to burn down their ROTC building, anyway. The next day, about 20 National Guardsmen marching up a hill away from an antiwar demonstration wheeled and fired at the crowds. They said a sniper had started it, but no one else ever found any evidence of that, and an FBI report later found that the Guard's claim "that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated subsequent to the event...
...rebels." Though he may not have actually helped plan the coup,Spínola was obviously prepared to act as its leader once it succeeded. Both Spínola and his boss. Army Chief of Staff General Francisco Costa Gomez, were kicked out in March because of their antiwar views on the African conflict...
...exaggerated reports about his own radical connections. They are more modish than real. The son of a stockbroker in nearby Palo Alto, Weed was graduated from Princeton with a degree in philosophy and physics in 1969; he was captain of the track team and was mildly active in the antiwar movement. True, he was friendly with several members of the university's loosely
...haven't exactly reached historic proportions since then, but it seems possible, at least, that they're showing more life than the last couple of years have suggested. When NAM hurriedly organized a demonstration against a Honeywell Corporation recruiter this spring, 120 people turned out for it--the largest antiwar demonstration here since the spring of 1972. Only about 500 protesters showed up for Gerald Ford's stop at the Harvard Club the next month, but that was more demonstrators than he'd seen anywhere else this year, and a substantial majority of them were Harvard students. Almost 150 students...