Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FREE CALLEY reads the bumper sticker (next to another reading "Don't Forget the POW's"). After all, war is war and people get killed, so why pick on one man for doing what happens all the time...
...turnout; in San Diego, for example, only 250 supporters-a mixed bag of John Birchers and antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote Nixon: "We are ten and eleven years old and afraid to grow up in America if a murderer is considered a hero...
...issue. "The death was announced by a general court-martial of six men," the editorial said. "Pallbearers will include Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGovern. Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers as fast as he could turn them out. Two radio stations in North Carolina and one in Roswell, N. Mex., announced that they would suspend broadcasts of Army public-service messages...
Other organizations focus on different kinds of action. In Washington and Atlanta, largely female groups calling themselves "Birthright" operate anti-abortion telephone hot lines, counseling troubled pregnant women and directing them to agencies offering special care. Chance of a Lifetime, also in Washington, distributes a bumper sticker...
...Texas was getting about 100 letters a week about the aircraft, 80% of them opposed. Now he gets 450 letters a week about the SST-and 80% are favorable. A particular target is the plane's most effective opponent, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. Backers have passed out bumper stickers intended to punish Proxmire on his home turf. One urges a boycott of Wisconsin cheese. In a lighter vein, another proclaims...