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...Paul Screvane, former deputy mayor of New York City...
...protest, debate and thought about the war. The Moratorium demonstrates a diversity and spread unknown in the earlier landmark protests against the war: the march on the Pentagon in October 1967, which inspired Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, and the bloody riots the following summer in Mayor Daley's Chicago. Each of those involved directly only a minority of the young and the radical intelligentsia, not anything resembling a cross-section of U.S. society...
...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...
...campus, the movement reached into the churches where special services were held. Even the World Series was affected. About 200 students stood outside Shea Stadium distributing leaflets, but inside the flags flew at full mast. Mayor John V. Lindsay had ordered the flags at half mast, but representatives of three armed services in the honor guard for the flag raising refused to go in the field unless the flag was hoisted to the top of the pole...
...Britain, Conn., flags flew from utility poles on orders of Mayor Paul J. Manafort, who urged citizens to fly flags from their homes as well to "help serve those who have doubts that we remain the United States...