Word: antiwar
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...Congressman of the title story is an honorable man. He makes a sound political decision, refusing to endorse an antiwar manifesto, on grounds that it won't do any good and will only irritate his constituents. Then he discovers, when a colleague with surer instincts successfully champions the antiwar cause, that he has put a lid on his career...
...GROUP of U.S. antiwar activists visiting North Vietnam earlier this year were asked by their hosts about the strange metamorphosis of Rennie Davis. The North Vietnamese were curious about Davis, who had been an antiwar leader for almost a decade but then had inexplicably left the movement to organize worshippers of the 15-year-old Guru Maharaj...
...past decade has brought unprecedented change. The defeat in Indochina and an increasingly fragile economy have reduced U.S. power in the rest of the world; a growing class of college-educated young people has appeared which increasingly questions that American order. Watergate, the growth of the Wallace movement, antiwar demonstrations, the crisis of the dollar in international money markets; the puzzle has yet to be put together in a satisfactory way but the pieces are certainly there. It is hardly far-fetched to speak of the structural crises of colonial Vietnam and contemporary America as being of similar magnitude...
...Coalition's public activities so far have included publicity campaigns for antiwar programs such as last week's "No Peace, No Honor" forum at BU. The group also stages occasional guerrilla theater pieces and film showings for church and community gatherings. Plans are now hinted for a full-fledged series of demonstrations to protest activities of local businesses or organizations connected to the American involvement in South Vietnam...
...here, too, the record is discouraging. The Senate, traditionally more receptive to antiwar feelings than the House, just passed a foreign aid budget in which the largest item was aid to Indochina--much of which will be used for military or police work...