Word: draft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vietnam Moratorium was conceived as an anti-war student moratorium last July-by three former McCarthy staffers: Sam Brown, national student coordinator for the McCarthy campaign; David Mixner, a former organizer of farm workers; and draft resister David Hawk. The idea of an escalating moratorium-one day in October, two in November, and so on "until there is a clear commitment to end U. S. involvement in Vietnam"-seems to have been accepted by most of the liberal establishment...
...Vietnam Moratorium advertises itself as "an effort to maximize public pressure to end the war by encouraging a broad cross-section of Americans to work against the war." It will expand by one day per month: is focused on ending the war with related issues (the draft, militarism, inflation) being brought in by participation on the local level; and encourages activities in which those unable to take the entire day off can participate. It calls its activities a "new polities" campaign-broad based participation, door-to-door canvassing, and small group contact...
Final recommendations from the Committee members-who are still circulating a draft version of the report-will come later in the week, he said, and the final report should go to the printers shortly thereafter. But Fainsod said, "my own view is there would be no substantial changes" from his interim report Tuesday...
...refused to comment on the contents of the 70-page typewritten report, now in its third draft, before he addresses the Faculty. But an article in yesterday's Boston Herald Traveler says the report will urge the establishment of an 18-member elected Faculty council, chaired by Dean Ford, which would replace the Committee on Educational Policy...
...that even if they made it out of Nanterre, there was little likelihood of finding a job suitable to their education. In the last few years there had been a huge increase in the number of university students, but no similar increase in opportunities. Like American students facing the draft those French students in sociology, philosophy, and literature, who were the great majority of revolutionaries, looked upon their futures with dread and without the hope that ending a war would bring a solution...