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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risks stirring up the hard-line right to renewed cries of "Not peace-victory!" He may exacerbate the tensions of a nation distraught and confused as it has not been since the Depression. That danger augurs ill for both his presidency and the American people, and could in the end make a compromise settlement in Viet Nam more difficult for Americans to understand and accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE POLITICS OF POLARIZATION | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Every viewpoint found its defenders: militants who would fight to the end, those who back the President's gradual disengagement policy, others who want him to move faster, advocates of instantaneous and total U.S. withdrawal from Southeast Asia. During much of the time that tens of thousands of young marchers against the war filed past the White House, the President remained aloof inside, showing no sign that he was moved to consider any policy change. He seems under no immediate compulsion to do so. The massive demonstration in Washington showed the continuing momentum of dissent. Nonetheless, the week's activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PARADES FOR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Prominent Dropouts. The two mass antiwar demonstrations were the creation of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam, a conglomerate that includes pacifists, Trotskyites, clergymen, socialists of various stripes, Communists, radicals and non-ideologists who simply want out of the war. Though there is some overlap of leadership, the New Mobe is distinct from the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee, a more moderate organization that began the M-day series last month and plans to continue them monthly as long as the U.S. remains in Viet Nam. The Moratorium leaders supported the New Mobe's marches, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PARADES FOR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...rally in San Francisco was also the biggest demonstration in that city's history. At the end of the sevenmile march from Pier 29 to Golden Gate Park, some 125,000 people had assembled. The day was entirely peaceful, though some of the talk coming from the platform was wild. The most extreme statements came from David Milliard, a Black Panther leader who spouted obscenities and declared: "We will kill Richard Nixon! We will kill any mother ?? that stands in the way of our freedom!" This was too much for his listeners, who shouted him down with cries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: PARADES FOR PEACE AND PATRIOTISM | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...However, BSFA disagreed with SDS on the tactic of keeping May in his office, and its members eventually released him from SDS custody. Later in the afternoon, BSFA voted to dissolve itself, and suggested that SDS end its sit-in, which the SDS members refused to do at that time...

Author: By Shirley E. Wolman, | Title: SDS Sit-In Blocks Dean; Blacks Aid May's Escape | 11/20/1969 | See Source »

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