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David Dellinger will speak on "Antiwar Strategy" for the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice tonight at 8 p.m. in, Lowell Lecture Hall. Dellinger will cover fall plans and look ahead to the 1972 conventions...
...never discussed the possibility of his taking the No. 2 spot on the ticket. They believe that Connally would accept an invitation if it were tendered, even if he had to switch to the Republican Party. He might have the support of Johnson, who is bitter about the strong antiwar positions of almost all the potential Democratic candidates. Johnson is known to believe that Connally will run with Nixon. The former President could give tacit approval to a Nixon-Connally ticket by sitting out the election and letting Texas' 26 electoral votes fall to the Republicans...
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the election was the widespread acceptance of the results. Or was it a resigned indifference? Spokesmen for the militantly anti-Thieu, antiwar An Quang Buddhists charged that Thieu had "killed democracy and given birth to dictatorship." Supporters of Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky urged the Vietnamese "not to recognize the faked results." But never before had Thieu seemed more firmly in command. Before the election, when Ky's people were raising ominous visions of post-election catastrophe, the CIA estimated that there was a 40% chance of a post-election coup attempt...
...complained about Specialist David B. Cortright's abilities as an Army bandsman at Fort Wadsworth in New York City. But Cortright's antiwar activities were another matter. He signed a protest petition published in the New York Times and distributed literature to fellow band members. After his fiancee and the wives of four other musicians tried to march with the band in an Independence Day parade last year carrying signs saying "NixOn War" and "Military Wives for Peace," the Army had had it. Some band privileges were revoked, and when dissension within the ranks followed, the Army transferred...
...Although antiwar forces lost their fight to fix a withdrawal date, Mansfield will almost certainly tack such an amendment, with a May 1972 deadline, onto the $21 billion military-procurement bill. It will thus become a fresh vehicle for the antiwar forces...