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...another. He mentioned as a possibility a blockade of Cuba-"Stop the shipment of everything in and out"-in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As another option, he suggested stationing U.S. fighter planes with support personnel in Pakistan. He went out of his way to bring up Viet Nam. Said he: "When 50,000 Americans make the ultimate sacrifice to defend the people of a small, defenseless country in Southeast Asia from Communist tyranny, that, my friends, is a collective act of moral courage, not an example of moral poverty." He urged that the Navy be built...
...similarities to the antidraft protests of the Viet Nam War years were only on the surface. For one thing, the draft card was a facsimile; nobody could find the genuine article, which the Government stopped issuing in 1976. For another, the protesters were outnumbered by students who had gathered near by to be entertained by a mime and a punk-rock group. And on the fringes of the antidraft crowd, Joseph Taylor, a black graduate student in psychology, voiced a view that would hardly have been heard at Berkeley during the Viet Nam War. Said he: "This is a sincere...
Across the country, Americans last week were debating the same question. The participants included some of the leading antiwar activists of the Viet Nam War years. At a rally at Stanford, Daniel Ellsberg urged the students to "mutiny" against draft registration. At Harvard, Nobel Laureate George Wald urged a group of protesters to "take control of your lives. Learn to say no to what you know is wrong." In Philadelphia, the Central...
...reason for the initial lack of opposition is the widespread belief that the Soviet Union is an aggressor. Said Berkeley Mathematics Professor Stephen Smale, who demonstrated against the Viet Nam War and is now the father of a draft-age son: "That gives [draft registration] a different character. It's a long way from what happened in the 1960s." Paul Ginsberg, dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, cited another reason for the relative quiet: "The vast majority of students were only 10 or 11 when we last had a draft. They are only vaguely aware...
...Germany all fell under Soviet control, either by Soviet army conquest or political subversion. North Korea, which was occupied by Soviet troops, entered Moscow's orbit in 1948, and China the following year, after Mao Tse-tung's armies swept across the country. Five years later, North Viet Nam became Communist, after the peasant armies of Ho Chi Minh humiliated the French at Dien Bien Phu. In 1960, Fidel Castro aligned Cuba with the Kremlin. The 1970s saw the emergence of Marxist, pro-Moscow regimes in Ethiopia, Angola, Mozambique, South Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia...