Word: moratoria
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many people turned out for the antiwar moratoria...
...tumultuous sixties, the Faculty debated and voted in such issues as ROTC and whether to endorse moratoria against the Indo-China War. It split into loosely defined liberal and conservative caucuses which tended to vote in blocs on the various issues...
...former Vietnam consultant to presidential advisor Henry Kissinger '50 decried the "criminality" of intervention in Laos. He accused the American people of "widespread unconcern of people over the war" and corresponding unwillingness to support criminal charges against U.S. officials. He referred to the success of the Moratoria of 1969 and 1970, when "the emphasis was on the costs of the war, rather than its criminality...
...that it read itself out of the anti-war movement. The Campus Worker-Student Alliance line-which PL pushed hard and continuously within SDS-sapped the organization of so much energy that it did no work on the issue of the war during the period of the Moratoria. SDS thus rendered itself powerless by the time Cambodia rolled around last May. At a time when tens of thousands of students focused on the war as a major national issue, SDS was engaged in its most intensive period of self-proletarianization...
...this isolation from the antiwar demonstrations which made SDS's shrill condemnation of the Moratoria particularly inappropriate and offensive. If SDS had worked toward an anti-war strategy and lobbied within the Moratoria for radical speakers and viewpoints, then the criticisms would have been more understandable. Instead, SDS held its own antiwar demonstrations in advance of the October Moratorium, with trade unionism as the principal motif ("an American victory in Vietnam will be a terrific defeat for the U. S. worker...