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When news of the arrest came to the encampment, VVAW immediately began a bail fund By late afternoon, more than 100 had donated pints of blood at the Red Cross to collect the $15 donor...
...another incident at the Court, a nineteen-year-old Alexandria, Va., man was ejected from the Supreme Court chambers for wearing a button supporting the VVAW. He was asked to take off the button, but refused, and as police escorted him away, raised his hand toward Burger, saying "Please support the veterans." He was released outside...
...cemetery yesterday on the grounds that "groups of a political persuasion cannot lay wreathes," John C. Metzler, superintendent of the Cemetery, admitted them today, saying, "as long as they leave their placards outside it's OK with me." The veterans carried no placards, only one sign identifying them as VVAW members...
John Kerry, coordinator and one of the leading spokesmen for the VVAW, said tonight that there are a number of reasons for this. One he said, is that a large number of sympathetic veterans have been unable to get off work or leave school. Another is the fact that the Pentagon has refused to supply the VVAW with the names of servicemen leaving Vietnam. As a result of this, he said, "the VVAW is forced to rely solely on word of mouth and the media," "It is really quite hard to get at the vets," he added...
...Congressional delegation consisting of Rep. Paul M. McCloskey (R-Calif.), Rep. Bella Abzug (D. N. Y.), and Rep. Thomas M. Rees (D-Calif.) met the marchers on the steps of the Capitol. Jan Crumb, president of the VVAW, read a list of 16 demands, including total withdrawal of troops, the end of appropriations for military operations in Indochina, amnesty for draft evaders who have refused induction or left the country, and appropriations for jobs and education for returning vets. Short speeches by McCloskey and Abzug followed...