Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THIS week's anti-war fast is a fruitless exercise in political impotence. At a time when effective direct action is needed most and when opportunities for it are close at hand, 400 students have been sidetracked into participating in a useless mystic exorcism...
Right now things can be done, whatever the protestor's depth of feeling against the war: draft resistance, obstructionist demonstrations, planning a reception for Dow at Harvard, working for McCarthy, canvassing neighborhoods. The fast, according to its leaders, is meant to prepare the fasters to act. This focus is inappropriate and anachronistic...
...Fast headquarters will be the former Radcliffe room in the Memorial Church basement. It will be open from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Monday and Wednesday and until 7 p.m. on Tuesday. A doctor will be present from 2 until 4 p.m. on Monday...
Organizers of the fast distributed black arm bands at the meeting. Blum said this was not to separate fasters, but to encourage them to speak to non-fasters about anti-war work...
...House, Rep. L. Mendel Rivers (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and F. Edward Hebert (D-La.), the committee's senior Democratic member, were opposed from the start and held fast. It is common knowledge in Washington that both men bitterly dislike Defense Secretary McNamara and were loath to support any reform so close to his heart. Despite their opposition, the House bill was only slightly more restrictive than the Senate's, providing for Presidential institution of a lottery only after a 60-day notice period during which Congress could act to veto...