Word: antiwar
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...Mississippi's John Stennis led a virtually solid front of Southerners to join Administration supporters in imposing cloture. The reason was that the issue was not race but the military. By the narrowest of two-thirds majorities, 61 to 30, the Senate shut off a filibuster by antiwar forces against the draft-extension bill. Having silenced debate, the Senate quickly passed the bill 55 to 30, ending one of the longest and angriest congressional controversies of the Nixon Administration...
...hearings on the bill to extend the draft for two more years began last February. At the end of June, the Army had to stop drafting young men because the authorization was mired in Congress. Draft extension became the focus for a broader debate on Viet Nam. In June, antiwar forces won passage of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's amendment. It tied continuing conscription to a demand that all U.S. forces be withdrawn from Indochina within nine months, provided that American prisoners of war were first released...
...terrorists, it was a measure of the distrust in which Thieu is now held that some observers thought that the President might even have engineered that. Their reasoning: any terrorist attack would be blamed on the Viet Cong, thereby strengthening Thieu's anti-Communist stand and silencing such antiwar critics as McGovern...
...commencement address at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif. Hatfield's growing opposition to the war in Viet Nam had already earned him a healthy amount of thinly disguised hate mail from "fellow Christians." The letters faulted the Senator for criticizing the President and accused him of encouraging antiwar protest. He came to the occasion in obvious anguish...
About 225 antiwar protestors were arrested at a non-violent sit-in at Hanscom Field, an Air Force research and development center in Bedford, on the 26th anniversary of Hiroshima Day, August 6. The action, organized by the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice, was one of two antiwar demonstrations scheduled. The Greater Boston Peace Action coalition staged a candlelight parade following a rally on the Boston Common that night. The lightly-attended rally was conveniently over just as the 12,000 people attending the Rod Stewart Summerthing Concert were pouring onto downtown streets. Still, the candlelight parade...