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...PAX WORLD FUND, launched last summer by two national officers of the United Methodist Church, avoids investing in any company on the Pentagon's list of the 100 largest U.S. defense contractors, or in any firm that counts on defense-related products or services for more than 5% of its sales. The churchmen have found this a difficult mandate to observe. They wanted to invest in Johnson & Johnson Co., which sells medical supplies to the military, but the SEC ruled that the company is a defense contractor as defined in the Pax World prospectus...
...PAX favors the concept of marshalled demonstrations, and feels strongly that PCPJ must take some responsibility for marshalling demonstrations with which they are involved...
...Coalition must spell out the nature of nonviolence to both the public and to members of the Coalition. The theory of self-defense must be clarified, and PAX urges that the premise of defending oneself during a civil disobedience action will be abandoned in the Gandhian tradition, PAX suggests as a model, the demonstrations fun locally by N-DAG (Nonviolent Direct Action Group...
...PAX urges that the best speakers representing different issues concerning the Coalition be used at demonstrations, and that the speakers be directed to focus on the war in Indochina...
...PAX feels a range of spokesmen should represent the Coalition to the public, and that all official statements of the Coalition make clear that the Coalition is not a monolithic body, that there are complexities involved. PAX suggests that whenever possible, public statements be "cleared" with members of the Coalition...