Word: antiwar
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...pursuit of this unlikely vision, Paul ("Pete") McCloskey, 43, has begun tilting at the windmills. Just returned from a fact-finding mission in Indochina, he starts this week as a guest on Face the Nation, then skims from an antiwar rally in Providence to the main protest event in Washington, D.C. He is also due to testify before a Senate subcommittee hearing on Indochinese refugees. A serious, tough-minded opponent of the war, he has flatly asserted that he is going to challenge Nixon in the primaries unless the President stops the bombing and accelerates the pace of withdrawal...
...stronger because it comes from an unlikely source. A Navy veteran, McCloskey volunteered for the Marines during the Korean War and won the Silver Star, the Purple Heart and the Navy Cross in combat as a second lieutenant. Elected to Congress in 1967 on a mild antiwar platform, outpolling among others Shirley Temple Black, he has been a supporter of the President on domestic issues...
...protest time again in Washington. The portable latrines and first-aid stations will soon be hauled into place for the antiwar demonstrators, who, like the cherry blossoms, have become a regular feature of spring in the capital. Unlike last May, when the Cambodian invasion and the killings at Kent State and Jackson State heightened the tension between protesters and their targets, this year's preparations have been relatively amicable. March routes were quickly granted, and the old tactic of drawing a wagon train of protective buses around the White House has been scrapped as poor public relations, and because...
...SERVICE ended, and we gathered at St. Augustine's. St. Augustine's is a small modern building in Southwest Washington that doubles as an Episcopal church and a Jewish synagogue. This week it would serve as our antiwar headquarters, We would sleep on the altar. It was carpeted. Some of us would send out press releases and coordinate activities with those in jail. Ninety-two of us-eight women and 84 men-planned to be arrested the next morning...
...expect any good from any rally anywhere at any time," Barbara Kelly, CTOC spokesman, said. However, Kelly said that CTOC felt the rally appropriate given today's antiwar demonstration in Washington...