Word: antiwar
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...Either the conflict will continue or the Thieu regime will gradually deflate. Americans who either support the NLF or simply want the fighting to end should share the same tactic: both groups should call for all parties to the peace agreement to abide scrupulously by its provisions. Additionally antiwar forces should press the American government to cut off financial aid to Thieu. Only in this way can the biggest obstacle to a meaningful Vietnamese peace be removed...
...Leonard Weinglass plus the three other trial lawyers begin gathering in their offices located five blocks from the courtroom; legal aides report on points they have spent the night researching. Meanwhile the fund raisers are arriving to call East Coast donors. Even during the trial, the offices, emblazoned with antiwar posters and looking more like a political headquarters than a law firm, continue to buzz. The phones are always ringing, the Xerox machine never stops. But the heart of the office day begins at 4:30 p.m., when the lawyers return from court and meet with 15 legal helpers...
...Antiwar activist Tom Hayden told another teach-in that some returning American POWs were forming "a fascist nucleus," providing President Nixon with his first organized pro-war support in a long time...
Russo, 36, testified first. A balding, horn-rimmed aeronautics engineer, he explained that, when he was first in Viet Nam as a Rand Corp. researcher, he had believed Viet Cong cadre to be "in doctrinated fanatics." But his gradual conversion to an antiwar activist was brought about in part by an interview with one memorable Viet Cong prisoner. Russo told how the prisoner vowed that "he would never give up, no matter how badly they tortured him. It was here I learned the difference between in doctrination and commitment. He was committed." Russo told the jury: "It was very moving...
...speechwriter for President Richard Nixon. A former associate editor of America magazine and a defeated antiwar Republican candidate for the Senate from Rhode Island in 1970, McLaughlin became a vocal supporter of Nixon's Viet Nam strategy. This has prompted Jesuit William Van Etten Casey of Massachusetts' College of the Holy Cross to call him "a Judas...