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...Since 1964, the beginning of what the North Vietnamese call the American War of Destruction, there has been a steady stream of Americans who have gone in small groups-journalists, people associated with the peace movement and so on. About a month before I went Noam Chomsky from M. I. T. went to Hanoi and while he was there was unexpectedly asked to lecture on linguistics. When he was leaving the North Vietnamese told him they wanted to receive more Americans, especially doctors and biologists. So, on rather short notice, I went with two other guys especially for the purpose...
...than 300 of Berrigan's supporters gathered in Wilmington, Del. There they proclaimed their "responsibility" for a series of raids on Selective Service and National Guard facilities last June. A statement bearing 320 names was sent to the Justice Department. Eighty clergymen, nuns and brothers and M.I.T. Professor Noam Chomsky were among the signers. Said Chomsky: "We want to create an atmosphere in which direct resistance to the war can be taken...
Sometimes the bored Defense Department public relations officers make an effort, yawn, to explain that the U. S. is only bombing the NLF supply lines in Laos. But as Noam Chomsky points out, it is difficult to defend the bombing of population centers and civilian targets in Northern Laos by saying that the U. S. is bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Northern Laos is at the opposite end of the country. Chomsky interviewed one Laotian refugee in a concentration camp outside of Vientiane recently who told him that the U. S. had bombed his village and forced them...
...Conference was called by the Cleveland Area Peace Action Council. In the long list of sponsors of the Conference were the names of Noam Chomsky, Dick Gregory, Fred Halstead and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science. There were also representatives of the Berkely Strike Coordinating Committee, the National Chicago Moratorium, the Student Mobilization Committee, the San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party, and the Chicago Women's Liberation Union...
...THERE was a big difference between who sponsored the conference and who actually showed up. The big names like Dick Gregory or Noam Chomsky were not in evidence. Despite the large number of unions supporting the conference, most of the participants were students. The conference itself was essentially a struggle between the Student Mobilization Committee-Young Socialist Alliance faction and the Students for a Democratic Society-Progressive Labor Party faction. Most of the other, smaller groups contented themselves with manning their literature tables and did not engage much in the rhetorical battles waged by the bigger groups...