Word: movement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matters of a similar character to Stewart Meacham's trip to Hanoi. The obliquely worded message referred to last year's release of prisoners to a delegation headed by Meacham, peace education secretary of the American Friends Service Committee. Dellinger, 53, a patriarch of the American peace movement, obtained a plane ticket from a "movement" travel agent and flew to Paris. He talked for three days with Xuan Oanh, North Vietnamese Negotiator Colonel Ha Van Lau and N.L.F. Foreign Minister Madame Nguyen Thi Binh...
Returning to Manhattan, Dellinger hoped to recruit a delegation that would span the spectrum of the peace movement. After days of negotiations, he settled upon Grace Paley, 46, a New York writer and worker in the Resistance, an antiwar organization; James A. Johnson Jr., a Negro who was one of the "Fort Hood Three"-three Army privates who in 1966 refused to serve in Viet Nam, and Linda...
...group was Rennard C. Davis, the National Coordinator of the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. A founding member of the S.D.S., Davis has been a longtime, virulent critic of the Viet Nam war and one of the most enterprising organizers of the radical movement. Dellinger and Davis are under indictment on charges of conspiracy to incite a riot during last August's Democratic Convention. With less than five hours left before his plane's departure, Davis managed to obtain a Federal Court of Appeals ruling permitting him to leave the country. Three days...
...Czechoslovakia by claiming such threats existed there. And Katushev left little doubt that the Soviets would intervene elsewhere in Eastern Europe for the same reason. Quoting a recent article by Brezhnev, he said: "Our party will spare no effort in order to strengthen the cohesion of the Communist movement and will carry out its international duty...
...Greek resistance movement has been ineffective. Though tourism fell 20% in the first two summers after the coup, it has rebounded sharply to precoup levels. Athens and the Greek isles are once more crowded with foreign visitors. Pressure on the U.S. has also been fruitless. Unwilling to press a valuable NATO ally too far, Washington has limited its efforts with the regime to friendly persuasion, a cut in heavy arms supplies, and the failure to appoint a new ambassador to Athens...