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...other "critical" factor, Chomsky added, is the behavior of the American majority, which, according to public opinion polls, opposes the war. "The hopes of the Vietnamese, the Laotians, and the Cambodians for some kind of decent future" depend on whether antiwar "feeling is translated into action," he said
...chao got a degree from the University of California and edited a small pro-Communist daily in New York City before returning to China in 1949; he has been a greeter of foreign VIPs in Peking and a traveling agitator, plugging the Communist line at one "youth conference" or antiwar rally after another despite his age (he is now 61). Hsiung Hsiang-hui, 52, picked up a degree at Ohio's Case Western Reserve University in the 1940s and a taste for Savile Row suits as Peking's charge in London in the early 1960s...
...Federal Bureau of Investigation has become an important fixture in the American psyche. Young white boys dream of growing up to be one of the Bureau's strong-jawed, clean-shaven Special Agents; car thieves and kidnappers fear its relentless pursuit; leftists and antiwar organizers wonder if Agents are tapping their telephones, reading their mail, infiltrating their meetings. Business, labor, and political leaders all fear and depend on the Bureau's wide information-gathering and dissemination powers...
...PCPJ steering committee decided to cancel the rally at an open meeting three weeks ago when it became apparent the demonstration might not draw as many supporters as had the spring offensive. "The October 13 rally was just not that successful." Tighe said, citing the Veteran's Day antiwar action as one indicator of a change in feeling among many former Movement supporters...
Tighe said media coverage is "deceiving people" into believing the war is winding down. "We're not even page two or page three news anymore. You really have to hunt around for information on the antiwar movement," she said...