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...winter by political scientists at Stanford and Chicago, shows the majority of Americans to be profoundly ambivalent about the war. Fifty-six per cent opposed even a gradual withdrawal, 61 per cent approved President Johnson's actions, but 54 per cent opposed a continuation of the war at its presnt intensity. Fifty four per cent favor free elections, even if the Viet Cong win, but almost exactly the same percentage opposed even a gradual withdrawal. Seventy per cent favor a United Nations-supervised truce, preserving current de facto political divisions. But 77 per cent oppose any kind of withdrawal which...

Author: By Michael D. Barone, | Title: The Effect of Vietnam at the Polls in '66 | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

...presnt nightmare which strengthens opposition to terror also demands despair. Oglesby admits that he sometimes feels as if the movement of the 1960's will be a curious footnote in American history -- a history written in a foreign language. He notes that some tell him not to reveal this intimacy, and adise him to crusade with the fervor of a millenial faith. This, he feels, would be a fraud. And there is, perhaps, a value in the horror story. "When men begin to quake, they may begin to move...

Author: By Rand K. Rosenblatt, | Title: Carl Oglesby | 2/15/1966 | See Source »

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