Word: shea
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THERE'S a new book out, called The People vs. Presidential War. It's about Vietnam and the Shea Bill, the state law that protects Massachusetts men from combat service in undeclared wars. One year ago today the bill's supporters massed in Gardner Auditorium in the State House to begin to work for the bill's passage. The bill became a prime trial for the people's right to govern themselves, and the book reflects basic liberal hopes and idealism. A jacket blurb quotes George McGovern...
...chapter in the book written by Fred King, a Harvard physics lab instructor, quotes Howard Zinn as saying "the war had to be opposed on all levels" and that the Shea Bill, even though it would not end the war, was a step in the right direction. So it was, but the liberal idealists who supported the Shea Bill must now see that their idealism is being outmaneuvered and subverted. At a time when the government is unresponsive to the people on the conduct of the war strong opposition is needed. Faith in our democratic institutions-as McGovern would have...
What will the liberals who worked for the Shea Bill do to end the war this year? They'll be involved in political intrigues to get an antiwar candidate whom the moderates and conservatives can like. And they'll probably express concern that the conduct of the Vietnamese elections this year under the Thieu-Ky regime is democratic even though political intimidation and exclusion have made those elections a hoax even now. All right-the war must be opposed on all levels, but while all that money and power is being bled into the American political viper the military destruction...
...Susan Shea, a special assistant to the Attorney General, conducted the questioning today. But Guy Goodwin, head of the Justice Department's Internal Security Division, has been handling the investigation. Goodwin is now in Harrisburg, Pa., working on the Grand Jury investigation there...
They suggested that the indictments are an effort of the Nixon administration to "punish" Massachusetts for the Shea bill which exempted Massachusetts servicemen from duty in Vietnam. The Supreme Court refused to hear the Massachusetts case...