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...other speakers on the "peacepanel" included Rep. Donald Riegle (R-Mich.), Stanley Karnow, Far Eastern correspondent for the Washington Post, and Daniel Ellsberg, former consultant to Henry Kissinger, now at M. I. T. Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.) also addressed the group in a pre-recorded telephone hook-up from Washington...
...Ripon Society and the Indochina Teach-In Committee are sponsoring an antiwar dinner-panel inside the Sheraton Boston Hotel at the same time as the official dinner. Liberal Republican Congressmen Paul McCloskey (R-Cal.) and Donald Riegle (R-Mich.), and Dan Ellsberg, a former member of the National Security Council staff, will speak at the panel...
...Daniel Ellsberg, research associate at the Center for international Studies at M. I. T. and former Vietnam consultant to presidential advisor Henry Kissinger '50 decried the "criminality" of intervention in Laos. He accused the American people of "widespread unconcern of people over the war" and corresponding unwillingness to support criminal charges against U.S. officials. He referred to the success of the Moratoria of 1969 and 1970, when "the emphasis was on the costs of the war, rather than its criminality...
...afraid that your reporter, who covered the East House debate on Vietnam, did a better job on covering Mr. Ellsberg's view of what I said than on reporting what I actually said...
...question is not whether the odds are against us or whether we have to give up the goal of total victory," Ellsberg replied. "The primary issue is to improve conditions in the South," he said. Explaining U.S. bombings as "putting pressure on the North," Ellsberg added that the U.S. was making a simultaneous effort to improve social, political, economic, and military programs in South Vietnam...