Word: antiwar
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...shout "Freedom to Viet Nam!" from a woman in the sixth balcony. She was the wife of a Moscow correspondent for the pro-Communist Italian newspaper Paese Sera; she was questioned by police but not arrested. It was the Russian equivalent of the girl who pulled an antiwar sign out of her cleavage in the East Room of the White House. But it was just a fleeting incident, dwarfed by the beauty of the ballet and the approach of the final hours of a summit, the full meaning of which was still locked away in the minds and hearts...
...park lay virtually useless until recently, when antiwar demonstrators chose to break down the fence, chop up the asphalt and plant shrubbery and flowers. Slowly students and townspeople drifted back into the park; they set up a recycling center to collect bottles and cans, and settled down to enjoy the spring air. This time reaction was prudent. The cops ignored the occupation and Chancellor Albert Bowker seems not to want to press the issue...
...Authority, legitimate or otherwise, is under attack as never before. Talk about politics is often murderous ("Oswald, where are you now that we need you?"). The Viet Nam War has had a profound effect on the American psyche, not only conditioning it to violence but often creating its own antiwar violence at home...
...Finally, antiwar activist David Dellinger and others proposed that the crowd march symbolically and non-violently into the double line of police that guarded the building. Arrests began almost immediately, and as police carted away about 200 demonstrators, the latest action in a weakening wave of antiwar protests soon came...
Perhaps the turnout was so small because many antiwar activists were campaigning for liberal candidates or lobbying senators and congressmen. It seems more likely, however, that the old tactic of marches and sit-ins (and even lobbying and campaigning) has simply lost its appeal as a vehicle for initiating change...