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...Today's actions in Boston include staged battles between VVAW members dressed up as American and Vietnamese soldiers, a speech by Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass.), and a court of inquiry into previously unpublicized aspects of the American war effort...
...Drinan and a representative of Sea. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) will speak at noon on the Plaza. A member of VVAW will then read statements supporting the planned Washington protests from six Massachusetts congressmen...
...specifically criticized Fr. Daniel Berrigan, Fr. Philip Berrigan and Congressman Robert Drinan, S.J. (D-Mass.) for engaging in politics. The Berrigan brothers have been involved in numerous protests against American participation in the Vietnam war. Drinan won a seat in Congress in 1970, running as a peace candidate...
...days of hiking, Mrs. Bruyn reached the Capitol steps in a chilling rain. She handed the peace theses, one of which urged an immediate withdrawal of all U.S. ground and air personnel from Southeast Asia, to two of her home-state legislators: Senator Edward Kennedy and Representative Rev. Robert Drinan. She prayed silently for peace. Her walk, she explained, was just "a personal act of commitment. So many people feel that there is nothing one person...
FIRST COME the preliminaries, in which the Boston liberals prove themselves to Hughes: the guests pat each other on the back for Father Drinan's Congressional victory, and they assure Dukakis that they still love him, despite his defeat. At last, Hughes lumbers to the podium. As he stands you realize for the first time that he is a huge man, and for a moment you see him as a truck driver come to talk straight to these college-educated, refined suburbanites. But his deep voice quickly launches into a joke about Nixon and dispels the truck driver image. Once...