Word: petitioners
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Both the chairman and the publicity director of the Business School's Vietnam Peace Committee yesterday called upon the leader of the Business School's student body, Carl G. Hokanson, to resign his post. They charge him with stopping the local and national press from publicizing their anti-Vietnam petition...
Hokanson, a second-year MBA candidate and chairman of the Student Association, said last week that he telephoned United Press International, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the Herald-Traveler to warn them about the "accuracy and validity" of the petition...
A group of 20 American civilians assembled at the U.S. Embassy to deliver a petition with 32 signatures calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam.
Four demonstrators were received by Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, and a spokesman said Bunker agreed to transmit their one-paragraph petition to Nixon.
The litany cited the number of U.S. and Vietnamese deaths, the cost of the war, and the divisions the war has created in America. Vetter stated that "We the people hereby petition the President and the Congress of the United States of America to end this war."