Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAIGON-The nation-wide anti-war demonstration in the United States caused a ripple but apparently no waves Wednesday among the half-million American troops whose presence in South Vietnam was at issue in the Moratorium Day protest...
...group of 20 American civilians assembled at the U.S. Embassy to deliver a petition with 32 signatures calling for the immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam...
Other speakers included Howard Zinn, professor at B.U., Rev. James K. Breeden of Roxbury, and Kay Hurley, of the South Boston Welfare Rights Chapter, Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science, introduced the speakers...
College towns were the center of most of the Moratorium activity. Though most college students did not object to the protest, in the deep South demonstrators clashed with anti-Moratorium students. Despite this, at Duke University and the University of North Carolina officials reported that only slightly more than half of the student body attended classes...
Kennedy said that such a step would "force" the South Vietnamese Government "to begin making the political accommodations for the future...