Word: marching
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...Viet Nam war has divided and demoralized the American people as have few other issues in this century. It led, on March 31, to Lyndon Johnson's renunciation of the presidency in the realization that he might well have been defeated for reelection. Its steadily growing cost was perhaps the greatest single obstacle to Johnson's hopes of building a Great Society for the U.S. in its cities, countryside and classrooms. The war's ugliness, and the often misunderstood reasons behind U.S. participation in it, greatly contributed to the rebelliousness of America's young. More than...
Over the last two weeks, student radicals have mobilized behind three major issues which are expected to reach a climax this week. In conjunction with the national SDS "Strike Back," the Wisconsin SDS and Draft Resistance Union (WDRU) are planning to march on the Capitol building tonight and return to the Student Union, where they hope to control the building through the night...
Russ Newfield, a member of the SDS regional staff, estimated that 5-10,000 students will march to the Tuesday rally, scheduled for 3 p.m. One group will leave from the Cambridge Common at 12:30 p.m. Other groups will be marching from Boston University and Roxbury...
...march is part of a nationwide program to point out what SDS considers the lack of choice in the election and the worthlessness of the vote, and to demand immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, Newfield said...
Cluster said the march would show that "a great number of people have not been fooled into thinking that our national problems can be solved within the confines of the present system." He added that like all SDS demonstrations, its second purpose was to build a movement of people who want change...