Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Four Harvard professors yesterday gave qualified support to a statement issued Monday by a nation-wide group of college instructors denouncing the shutdown of universities during the Vietnam Moratorium...
TODAYS Vietnam Moratorium should mark the beginning of a mass movement to achieve one simple objective: the immediate withdrawal of all United States military and financial support from the existing governments of the Southeast Asian mainland...
Attempting to orient the anti-war movement toward overt support of the NLF would, however, be unwise, and perhaps disastrous. American support of the NLF will have no effect on the course of South Vietnamese politics, yet it could divide the movement in the United States enough to assure the indefinite continuation...
...program of support for the NLF will seriously hamper the recruiting efforts needed to achieve this end. To bring one citizen around to backing immediate withdrawal on this basis-or to convince one already in favor of withdrawal to take action to show his support-will require convincing them that the NLF is a positive good deserving their wholehearted support...
...this, it would be necessary both to overcome most Americans' quasi-Pavlovian reluctance to support any movement with substantial Communist elements, and their more justifiable queasiness at identifying themselves with a movement whose accession to power may well be accompanied by large-scale massacres of political opponents...