Word: antiwar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Columnist Joseph Kraft seemed to speak for a number of antiwar liberals last week when he wrote: "The basic fact is that the country is faced with an unhappy choice." With Nixon representing the Republican right and McGovern the Democratic left, Kraft observed, there are "no good options. The middle ground of American politics has been torn to tatters." Moreover, he added, McGovern's "performance in the campaign continues to raise questions about his capacity to govern." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker, a Nixon critic of long standing, has not been quite so stern, but he called attention...
...Federal Elections, which informed the Justice Department of an "apparent violation" of the 1971 Federal Election Campaign Act. As a result, Federal Judge Sylvester Ryan last week enjoined further political activity by the ad's sponsor, the National Committee for Impeachment, which is largely the creation of Antiwar Activist Randolph Phillips...
...accounted for, there will be an American volunteer force in South Viet Nam." Last weekend, on the occasion of North Viet Nam's National Day, Hanoi announced that three P.O.W.s-one Air Force and two Navy pilots-will be freed. Within the next few weeks, members of American antiwar groups will fly to Indochina to escort them home. They are the first P.O.W.s to be released since...
...convention, and it may well have been the end of massive war protests in the U.S. To many of the antiwar leaders, Miami Beach had seemed the chance to reassemble the movement and kick off a national campaign against Nixon. More likely it was, as Jeff Nightbyrd, a yippie leader, put it, "the last of the national jamborees...
...Except for a bit with Donald Sutherland sportscasting the war as if the combat zone were a huge football field, the skits are heavyhanded and almost devoid of humor, the songs sing-along antiques from the coffeehouse era. At one point, reading a passage from Dalton Trumbo's antiwar novel Johnny Got His Gun, Sutherland seems paralyzed with moral fervor...