Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TODAY'S Vietnam Moratorium will be the largest and probably the most important single protest against the American intervention in Vietnam since the war began. Whether or not such protests as these can ever by themselves succeed in forcing the Administration to withdraw from Vietnam, a successful Moratorium will clearly indicate to President Nixon that the political costs of continuing the war into the months ahead will be far greater than they have been until now. Everyone who stands for an immediate withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam should support today's Moratorium, and should do whatever...
...that nothing Nixon can do now will be able to stem the tide. But we would do well to remember how easily President Johnson was able to stop the peace marches by opening the peace talks at Paris: today's Moratorium is the first large-scale nation-wide Vietnam protest in nearly two years...
...walked into the drugstore. Six times the answer had been no, and with each experience her feelings about her involvement in the protest had changed. Her embarrassment had given way to the feeling that those with whom she dealt should be embarrassed. The sense of playing games and the attitude of one-ups-manship had given way to the feeling of urgency. Perhaps, she thought, her friends would argue against the importance of her work, but now it was important...
Before the Cliffie chose her words, however, the wife added, "I think all this protest is irrelevant...
UCRA did not rule out individual or collective protest by cutting classes, "provided no effort was made to prevent students who felt differently from attending class." the statement said. The group stated also that students should have an opportunity to make up classes cancelled for the protest, if they so desired...