Word: lowenstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your article reporting that Allard Lowenstein "kicked off the Anti-war Vietnam Moratorium" rankles just a bit. At least, it rankles those who are concerned with the historical record. People in this community and elsewhere should know that all through the summer, he agitated among students and peace-minded Democrats against the October 15 Moratorium. Sam Brown and David Hawk, the organizers of this activity, found Lowenstein to be a source of constant obstruction. He has come around now that he has no other choice, lest he be outflanked by Senator Harris. The press created the myth that Lowenstein drove...
...certainly true that opinions are forged more in action than in reflection. But many of those who worked for McCarthy then worked for Lowenstein, and deepened their commitment to moderate politics. It is again time to show new vistas of possible action. When radicals are not describing the new, they are enforcing...
Democratic Congressman Allard Lowenstein of New York, a leader of last year's dump-Johnson movement and this year's M-day program, puts his case starkly: "This government, God willing, will respond to the wishes of the people, not to a tiny blackmailing minority that is trying to extort something, but to the massive wishes of people who have a right to express their views." Yet there is an inevitable element of coercion. The protest's sponsors plan monthly moratoriums, with each round to be a day longer than the previous one. If that plan works?a doubtful proposition?...
...issue of the war to the forefront of American consciousness through a mixture of informal discussion and dramatic gesture. Many of the leaders of the Moratorium Committee were among the McCarthy and R.F.K. braintrusters: Brown; Adam Walinsky, 32, one of Kennedy's most insistently antiwar aides; and Congressman Lowenstein...
...Harold Hughes (D-Iowa) appeared at a teach-in at Princeton Tuesday night along with Carl Davidson, former national chairman of SDS. A rally yesterday attended by 1000 to 1500 featured Susan Sontag. Lowenstein, and Rep. Frank Thompson (D-N.J.) Last night a candlelight service was held for the war dead on the steps of the State Capital in Trenton. University employees were allowed the day off with...