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...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...
...Yale, an unexpected 50,000 gathered at noon at the New Haven Green to hear speeches by Rep. Allard Lowenstein (D.N.Y.); Rev. Joseph Duffy, president of the A.D.A.; New Haven Mayor Richard C. Lee, former Secretary of Interior Stuart Udall, who is currently professor at the Yale Forestry School; President Kingman Brewster; and Rev. William Sloan Coffin. Brewster, who has been a vocal opponent of the war, told the crowd. "Let us be more honest in the pursuit of peace than we have been in the pursuit...
...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...