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...Washington, D.C. last weekend, students by the thousands shuffled in picket lines before the White House on behalf of disarmament with controls, got an early assist from the President himself, who ordered a five-gallon coffee urn sent out. A delegation invited inside found presidential aides lined up to listen. Emerging pleased as punch, one "Turn Toward Peace" picketeer reported, "They said we were a nice balance to the 'cold warriors.' " In the halls of Congress, the disarmament group got shorter shrift from California's Chet Holifield, chairman of the Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. "Somebody...
Both delegations to Congressmen and participants in the picket lines often seemed unable to define the actual objectives of the Turn Toward Peace. While trying to convince Senators and Representatives of their objectives, Project representatives often end up fighting among themselves...
...massive picket line around the White House, scheduled for tomorrow morning, will probably be contested by the Metropolitan Washington Council of the Young Americans for Freedom. Fulton Lewis III, the group's leader, asserted: "We cannot in all conscience permit this 'surrender operation' to go unopposed...
Rioting began, the film narration claims, when a student jumped the picket line and hit a policeman with his own nightstick. This alleged assault was never actually pictured on the film, Kaplan pointed out. He added that the policeman himself admitted that he was not attacked at the beginning of the riot, though he was jumped about ten minutes later...
...Saturday plans call for a mass picket at the White House, visits to all of Washington's embassies, and a fine concluding rally...