Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passed without notice when it occurred in mid-March 1968, at a time when the war news was still dominated by the siege of Khe Sanh. Yet the brief action at My Lai, a hamlet in Viet Cong-infested territory 335 miles northeast of Saigon, may yet have an impact on the war. According to accounts that suddenly appeared on TV and in the world press last week, a company of 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning and destroyed its houses, its livestock and all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal...
...reports on Washington in the CRIMSON of November 20 reflect an attitude which I find very disturbing. I had thought people would march because they deplored the Vietnam situation, the death of two nations and two peoples. The march did not end the war and Nixon ignored it anyway. But he couldn't deny that a quarter of a million people were there in protest...
...says he wanted to "watch." He tells how he laughed, sang, danced, smoked, ate. He was so pleased to see all the "freaks" that went I don't think that matters and I think besides that it ignores the tragedy and the horror of the war which the march was supposed to protest. It just isn't a time to be self-conscious and self-centered and self-gratifying. It disgusts me because it seems amoral. Considering what is happening today, what we need now is involvement and concern. Otherwise, when Mrs. John Mitchell says all those kids went...
...advisory committee approved last March the concept of multiple funding for the Camrbridge Project, but only the Defense Department has granted money to the Project so far. Philip J. Stone III, professor of Social Relations and a member of the advisory committee, wrote to the National Science Foundation (NSF) last week, urging that it ask for a significant increase in Congressional appropriations to NSF for computer applications in the social sciences...
...that there is a growing trend towards violence in the anti-war movement, or at least that the D.C. protest indicated that. On the contrary. I was struck by the overwhelming rejection of violence and of intolerance by the main body of the quarter million plus people at the March and rally...