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Yale Chaplain William Slone Coffin mixed moral persuasion, debating tactics and humor last night when he lambasted the United States Policy in Vietnam...
...Coffin suggested that the ROTC student who opposed the war could resign his commission--if he didn't mind landing in jail. A more practical possibility for conscience-clearing, he added, might be to "take the $40 a month which is your ROTC pay, and give it to a good peace cause...
...Coffin said he hopes that the United States can negotiate an "honorable disengagement," but he likes to speculate on the possibility of an arbitration. "We'd come out looking very good if we became the first major power to submit such a major issue to U.N. arbitration," he said...
Yale's chaplain, William S. Coffin, will discuss "U.S. Policy in Vietnam: Political and Moral Self-Defeat" beginning at the same time in the Leverett House Old Library...
...eastern Kentucky. Behind the legal protection of mineral-rights grants dating from the last century, companies have let mine debris bury trees, pollute streams with fish-killing acids, even damage homes with boulders and shale cascading down mountainsides. One woman watched in horror as a bulldozer uprooted the coffin of her infant son, sent it tumbling down the hill behind her house. Since last summer, sporadic gunfire has erupted between the angry mountaineers and the armed guards of the mine operators...