Word: rep
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...Rep. Paul McCloskey, who has said he will challenge Nixon in the Republican Presidential primaries, reports that since 1968 American bombing has produced 500,000 refugees in Laos alone. The use of massive and repeated air strikes by B-52's, the creation of free-fire zones (in which anything that moves is regarded as fair game), and the chemical defoliation of millions of acres of South Vietnamese and Laotian jungles and croplands, have caused massive disruptions in the social fabric of South east Asia...
...schedule of speakers for Saturday's Capitol rally is both long and varied, including Ralph Abernathy, Dave Dellinger, Senator Vance Hartk (D-Ind.), Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.), Coretta King, Country Joe and the Fish, Teamsters vice-president Harold Gibbons, and, of course, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology...
Copies of the letter were also sent to Sen. Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) and Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass...
...Congressional delegation consisting of Rep. Paul M. McCloskey (R-Calif.), Rep. Bella Abzug (D. N. Y.), and Rep. Thomas M. Rees (D-Calif.) met the marchers on the steps of the Capitol. Jan Crumb, president of the VVAW, read a list of 16 demands, including total withdrawal of troops, the end of appropriations for military operations in Indochina, amnesty for draft evaders who have refused induction or left the country, and appropriations for jobs and education for returning vets. Short speeches by McCloskey and Abzug followed...
...Rep. Robert Drinan (D-Mass.) addressed the crowd which had gathered near VVAW's display van at the edge of the Plaza. "I commend, I admire and I endorse the VVAW," he said...