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Tarnes said that a coalition of organizations, including ADA, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, Citizens for Participation in Political Action (CCPax), Clergy and Laity Concerned, and the Indochina Peace Campaign will continue to collect impeachment signatures until "impeachment is actually achieved...
...belief is that the achievement of a (nearly) warless international community dominated by U.S. power would allow this nation's domestic machinery to function within the old imperial now called multi-national context, but without public resistance such as that generated by the inhuman policies used to prosecute the Indochina Wars...
Clinging to a harsh war policy in Indochina, besieged by protests at home, this mediocre crew developed an obsession with manipulating public opinion and hiding its procedures and policies. Tapping the telephones of high officials and newsmen for imagined reasons of "national security" led easily into eavesdropping for political purposes. Once the Nixon agents were arrested inside Democratic National Headquarters, the deceitful cover-up came automatically to apparatchiks who did not even trust each other. The writers leave little doubt that they believe Nixon knew all about the concealment...
...PACIFIST as far back as the Korean War, Mendelsohn has liberally injected his view of social responsibilities into his other activities. In 1968, he visited Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand with the American Friends Service Committee, meeting with representatives of the NLF and North Vietnam. The three week study of Indochina's political structure and the effects of the war was extended unexpectedly when Mendelsohn's party was trapped in Saigon for ten days by the Tet offensive. "We saw the war a lot closer than we had planned," Mendelsohn recalls now. Upon his return, Mendelsohn embarked on his long, sometimes...
...main issue confronting Madison--the issue which focused some national attention on Madison this summer--is the trial of Karleton Armstrong who has acknowledged bombing the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center, long a target for antiwar agitation because research done there found wide application in the Indochina war, in 1970. A researcher was killed in the bombing, and Armstrong pleaded guilty of second-degree murder in exchange for the opportunity to present a political defense...