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...Democratic Action, spoke for those who wanted the nation's leaders put in the dock along with Calley. "The guilt of My Lai runs up the chain of command into the White House," he said. "The Army is trying to sacrifice one or two low-level officers as token scapegoats." The most extraordinary demonstration against the verdict from the antiwar side was staged in Manhattan's Wall Street by the Viet Nam Veterans Against the War. Smack in front of the New York Stock Exchange, a dozen veterans in fatigue jackets passed out leaflets next to a big white...
...deputy's bed (he slept through it). Their boffo running gag: a rubber chicken purchased as a complement to Sheely's chicken jokes. The chicken made regular appearances in beds and toilets around the jurors' hotel rooms at the Ambassador (cleverly dubbed the "Dambassador"). As a token of their esteem, the group at trial's end presented the chicken to Judge Older...
...town of Bend, Ore., attracts so illustrious a speaker as Ralph Nader. The consumer advocate was duly paid for his appearance last fall, but now C.O.C.C. is crying foul. On the same day Nader also dropped in at a number of other schools in the state, accepting only token payments in some cases, or none at all. Confronted with what his agent had wrought, Nader lamented: "God! I'm being hoisted on my own petard!" The explanation was that the C.O.C.C. audience got a fullblown address while the others heard only the briefest of talks...
...refugees from the mainland in 1949, the regime's status as an embattled government in exile has served to justify its tight, autocratic rule of the island. The 2,000,000 mainlanders enjoy a number of political and economic perquisites, but the 12 million native Taiwanese have only token representation in the Taipei government. The change in U.S. policy thus may give a lift to the weak and diffuse Taiwan independence movement...
Marshall charged that Polaroid funds would be used to send black children to black schools where they are "educated for servitude." "And I think only a few black workers will be promoted as a token move," she added...