Word: cravens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five-Jay Craven, Susan Gregory, Chip Marshall, John Scaglioti, and Kathy Sister-urged the Committee to propose the People's Peace Treaty for passage in the Senate and to support the upcoming demonstrations in Washington on Monday and Tuesday in which PCPJ will attempt to close the city by nonviolent obstruction of commuter bridges and roads...
...What we're talking about is a situation in Indochina in which life is made different," Craven said during the hearing. "All [the people] know is that monsters come from the sky everyday and destroy their land...
Several Foreign Relations Committee members took angry exception to the group's testimony and the hearing reached high pitch when Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott (R-Pa.) accused Craven and Gregory of having discussed with Nguyen Thi Binh, Chief NLF representative at the Paris negotiations, the possibility of "a kidnapping of public officials of the U.S." as part of next week's demonstrations...
...minutes later Scott asked whether any of the group had ever met personally with Binh, and both Craven and Gregory indicated that they...
Louise Bruyen, the Newton woman who walked to Washington to protest the war, and Jay Craven, a B.U. student who went to Vietnam last year to negotiate the treaty, will speak in favor of the proposal...