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These figures are not the work of antiwar propagandists. They were brought back by retiring Army Secretary Stanley Resor from a recent visit to Viet Nam, and repeated last week in a study conducted for the House Foreign Affairs Committee by Connecticut Republican Robert H. Steele. Steele made this chilling observation: "The soldier going to South Viet Nam today runs a far greater risk of becoming a heroin addict than a combat casualty." In all seriousness, he recommended that the President order all Americans home unless the governments of South Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand...
Money, of course, is a huge problem in waging a campaign against a President. Some 35,000 supporters have so far written or telegraphed McCloskey to cheer him on, but they have donated only $10,000. McCloskey has another $10,000 from California Industrialist Norton Simon, a liberal antiwar Republican, with a vague promise of more if, explains McCloskey, "I measure up as a candidate." The relatively unknown three-term Representative has light-years to go before he can make that claim; a recent Gallup poll of registered Republicans showed that only 1% would want him to be the party...
Griflin went to Paris on May 20 as a member of the Catholic Commission of Inquiry, an interdenominational group of antiwar clergy and laymen. He met with Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the PRG delegation, and with Xuan Thuy, head of the North Vietnamese delegation...
...veterans, with plastic rifles slung over their shoulders, retraced in reverse, Paul Revere's famous ride of 1775 to dramatize their opposition to the Vietnam war. Their arrival on the Common climaxed their participation in several days of antiwar activities, including a Saturday night encampment on the Lexington Battle Green which led to mass arrests Sunday...
...other men who took over Washington when L.B.J. went home. There, in Johnson's considerable embrace, were Barry Goldwater and Hubert Humphrey, Dean Rusk, William Westmoreland, Abe Fortas, Billy Graham, Luci and Lynda, Edmund Muskie, Walt Rostow, secretaries, plumbers, Congressmen, phone operators and, perhaps fittingly, a few hundred antiwar demonstrators near...