Word: antiwar
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...Republican National Committee and the President's staff were housed were sealed off, preventing any and all persons superfluous to the business being conducted therein from entering; every public reception and welcome for Party dignitaries was peopled by carefully screened youths and Party regulars, leaving no chance for antiwar protesters to man the proceedings...
Celluloid. The bulky party platform, composed at the White House and supporting the President on every imaginable issue, is accepted with scant protest. California Congressman Paul "Pete" McCloskey, who may have one elected delegate at the convention, wanted to be put in nomination for President to air his antiwar views, but television time is too valuable for that. The Rules Committee last week hastily approved a proposal that no one can be nominated unless he is supported by a majority of delegates in three states. "Open-door party!" snorts McCloskey. "It's like putting five padlocks...
...North Vietnamese never said four years ago whether their redeployment was meant as a political signal. Shriver's argument was somewhat vitiated by the fact that the withdrawal occurred well before L.B.J. left office. Nor did it help his case that Shriver was not widely known as an antiwar critic at the time and that he stayed on at his ambassadorial post in Paris for one year of the Nixon Administration. At this late date, however, both Republicans and Democrats were playing the issue for political effect; the real question of whether a chance was missed remained somewhat obscure...
...decade of large-scale fighting in Southeast Asia has left many Americans with the impression that the war-weary South Vietnamese, if given a free choice, would gladly exchange a military dictatorship in Saigon for a Communist regime if they could get peace in the bargain. To hear some antiwar activists tell it, Hanoi's forces are benevolent friends of the South Vietnamese population. Well, not quite. The fact is that the North Vietnamese have sometimes been shockingly brutal in their treatment of South Vietnamese who happened to be under their control...
...Cambridge antiwar organizations, a civil liberties fund, and a military counseling service filed suit Friday in U.S.District Court charging that Federal, state and local officials had tapped their telephones...