Word: antiwar
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WASHINGTON, D. C.-Congressmen arriving for the noon rollcall yesterday at the Capitol must have wondered whether they were being button-holed by lobbying antiwar veterans or besieged by a rag-tailed army of madmen...
Calley is a simple sort of soldier, from a working-class family and not too bright. Most American families who think the ADA is some sort of weed-killer know someone personally very much like Calley. News reports about "ground fire at Fire-base Six" and antiwar slogans about napalm can seem quite divorced from everyday realities of American life, but Calley is someone to identify with...
...spite of the loud antiwar demonstrations of past years, an appalling ignorance of the nature of the Vietnam war is widespread. Until the Calley trial, many people didn't know what a Free Fire Zone was, didn't know that it is calculated American policy to kill anything that moved. Calley's trial gave the needed personal tie to the war for many Americans to take an interest in what is going on. Why, they ask, is Calley being prosecuted for doing what any good soldier in his position would...
...three freshman Congressmen, Representatives Parren J. Mitchell (D-Md.). Bella S. Abzug (D-N. Y.), and Ronald V. Dellums (D-Calif.) asked Secretary of the Army Stanley T. Resor to investigate charges that Font is being harassed because of his antiwar activities and the housing report that he compiled...
Font is currently accompanying Congressman Dellums on a tour of Army bases around the country. He plans to return to Maryland and continue his antiwar activities there for a few months. These activities include Font's participation in the Concerned Officers Movement, a group of about 700 active-duty officers who oppose the war and advocate increased leniency within the Army. Font hopes to return to the Kennedy School of Government in the fall to finish off the requirements for his master's degree...