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...other issue on which Rizzo capitalized was Green's campaign. During the last week or so, Green brought in outside liberals to support his candidacy. Such Congressmen as Father Drinan and Abner Mikva came, as did Senator John Tunney of California. Allard Lowenstein and Ramsey Clark endorsed Green. So did Ted Kennedy. ("The Green family and the Kennedy family have always been very close," Teddy said in TV spots.) But Rizzo told the voters that he didn't need outside help, and that they didn't either...
More than this, these children are owed reparations like the other war victims. Congressman Drinan has proposed reparations for the Vietnamese people. The U.S. Government has established benefits for GI's or for their surviving families. The nation owes these American children what it gives the acknowledged orphans of American...
Among those Congressmen were Bella S. Abzug (D-N.Y.). Shirley Chisolm (D-N.Y.). Ron Dellums (D-Calif.), and Father Robert Drinan (D-Mass.). Twenty-five Congressmen also signed a statement offering the vets their offices overnight in the event of a police eviction...
...Robert Drinan (D-Mass.) addressed the crowd which had gathered near VVAW's display van at the edge of the Plaza. "I commend, I admire and I endorse the VVAW," he said...
...These veterans have tremendous credibility," Drinan added, "because they have been involved in the Vietnam atrocities and are willing to stand trial-if necessary-for their involvement, in order to make these war crimes known...