Word: antiwar
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Ellsberg, the antiwar activist, must be taken seriously. The issues he has raised about Viet Nam dwarf him as an intellectual celebrity. To view him as a potential martyr, or simply as a burglar, offers a too convenient way of avoiding the moral questions implicit in all wars. To avoid such questions goes beyond "the need not to know" to the need not to feel...
...grown over the years until the group now threatens to become a majority. That was made clear in a series of votes last week. Inching ever closer to a cease-and-desist order to the President, both the Senate and the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed antiwar measures. It was enough of a setback to cause Nixon to denounce his critics more vigorously than ever for encouraging the North Vietnamese to fight on. "We would hope," he said at his press conference, "that public figures in their comments will not do anything to undercut the negotiations, that Congress...
...business, and with former Governor Ralph M. Paiewonsky, who accepted his resignation from the commerce commission. But Kimelman caught the SAMMA fancy of Stewart Udall, then the Interior Secretary, who hired him as his aide. In Washington, Kimelman became friends with McGovern, whom he admired for his antiwar stand. McGovern and his supporters have been frequent guests at the Kimelman home overlooking the Charlotte Amalie harbor. (Campaign Managers Frank Mankiewicz and Gary Hart rested up from the Democratic Convention there...
...issue in the campaign." But it is also true that he has been able to mine your ports and bomb your bridges with astonishing political impunity. You may have noted that Mike Mansfield, the dovish majority leader of the Senate, last week promised to suspend action on antiwar bills so as not to interfere with Nixon's plans. If he is reelected, Nixon may be under even less effective pressure to end the violence than...
...here at the Democratic Convention." In marked contrast to the club-wielding cops at the 1968 Chicago convention, Miami Beach Police Chief Rocky Pomerance worked closely with protest leaders. Most important, the Democrats had changed into a party with a broader base. Not only did the Democrats nominate an antiwar candidate, but members of the protest groups who stormed the barricades in Chicago were now inside the convention hall. Said Yippie Leader Abbie Hoffman: "I'm groovin' on democracy! This thing really freaks...