Word: vietniks
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...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...
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...
Eggs & Red Paint. On the whole, the Vietnik rallies - which also attracted some tweedy faculty members and clean-cut non-beats - seemed to bear out a Senate Internal Security Subcommittee report issued last week. While most members of the protest movement are loyal Americans, it said, control of the movement has "clearly passed "into the hands of Communists and extremist elements who are openly sympathetic to the Viet Cong...