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...reaction to today's draft is also different from any previous one because of the nature of the war in Viet Nam. No martial spirit is evident; there is no easily visible enemy. The most extreme-and untypical-example of opposition to the draft is the Vietnik, who burns his draft card, defies the courts and generally makes a nuisance of himself. But even the average draftee who does not oppose the war in Viet Nam does not completely understand it, and is moved by no strong motivation to join it. "If students, for example, could feel the peril...
...risk and the responsibility for the war were, of course, Lyndon Johnson's. "We will stand in Viet Nam," he said in July. Thereafter, the President moved resolutely to make good that pledge, weathering open criticism from within his own party, strident protest from the Vietnik fringe, and the disapprobation of friendly nations from the Atlantic to the China...
...Horatio. Well, to hell with the U.S.A., Viet Nam and the Great Society. I've had it. I am on my way to Rio de Janeiro to open a pet shop selling armadillos to Chilean soccer players. Can you think of a happier ending for a sneaker-wearing Vietnik...
...could wear himself out with all that marching. Besides, every middle-aged beard and his brother are out picketing for peace these days. So, turning from soles to souls, disillusioned Vietnik Ray Robinson Jr., 29, a Negro in blue denim, hit on the great couch-in formula for ending-the war. "We've got to show the people the only way is love," he explained. "We've got to talk and listen-everywhere." Preferably sitting...
Determined to milk as much benefit as possible from U.S. antiwar demonstrations, the Viet Cong last week freed two G.I.s especially with the Vietnik audience in mind. The men were Staff Sergeant George E. Smith, 27, and Specialist Fifth Class Claude McClure, 25, both of whom had been Communist prisoners for more than two years. The Viet Cong delivered them, well fed and in apparent good health, to a Cambodian border post only a few hours after a V.C. radio station had broadcast that the G.I.s were being released "as a response to the friendly sentiments of the American people...