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...terms he defines in the Swedish-English volume he filtered out of TIME'S columns. Gullberg says: "Many of TIME'S own neologisms have come to stay in the language." We can't wait to see how a few of our recent coinages-non-book, Vietnik, op art-are minted into Swedish...
...South Viet Nam; Ohio State held a similar "bleed-in." Michigan State students "adopted" the village of Lang Yen, 60 miles north of Saigon, and so far have sent $740 to help build a school and a marketplace. Two groups have sprung up at Williams to ridicule the Vietnik demonstrators. One, called Gurgle, plans a ten-mile drive between two taverns "to protest nothing." An other, the Student Committee for Restricted Escalated Warfare (SCREW) mimicked a protest demonstration held by the left-wing Students for a Demo cratic Society...
Probably the two most leftist major student bodies are those at Berkeley and the University of Chicago. Even there, the Vietnik images have been much magnified. The best on-the-scene estimate of Berkeley sentiment sees 10% of the students as Vietniks, 15% as doves, 30% as apathetics, 35% as pragmatists, 10% as hawks. Chicago, where every student feels obliged to have an opinion, splits roughly in half over the war. But when Vietniks there tried to get the student body to protest the war and back an intelligence-insulting petition accusing the U.S. of "tacit or active collaboration...
Although their goals are the same as many nonreligious Vietnik protesters, the peace churches generally disapprove of activities that clearly violate U.S. law, such as draft dodging and burning Selective Service registration cards. "This is exhibitionism," says Francis Brown, general secretary of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. The peace-churchmen seek only to live to the letter of Christ's injunction (in Luke: 6: 27-29): "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. To him who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other...
...know the Vietnik is not necessarily to love him. At his best, he is inspired by the U.S. civil rights revolution and the practical results of nonviolent protest as applied to that Gandhian principle by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. He has a rather irritating habit of claiming a monopoly on humanitarianism. In justifying civil disobedience or downright defiance of national law, he is quick to cite the Nuremberg trials, which, he insists, made it a matter of international law that the individual cannot be excused for crimes committed by government order; thus cooperating with the U.S. Government...