Word: war
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Critics' efforts for complete revision of the draft law-particularly for abolition of college deferments at least during the Vietnam War-were unsuccessful...
National and local leaders of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee yesterday denied rumors of a split in the Fall anti-war movement, but confirmed their plans to stage community peace drives separate from the nation-wide March on Washington November...
...Globe said that the Moratorium Committee disagreed with the extensive anti-war platform of the march and feared that the more radical Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) would exert too much control in the march organization...
Some charges made against professors were trivial. (For example, one was condemned for having worked in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II.) Other accusations were more serious, although some of these misrepresented the facts. For example, one guide told his listeners that Thomas C. Schelling, Professor of Economics, had submitted recommendations to the "Senate National Security Subcommittee" on ways "McNamara's planning system for the Department of Defense could be applied to the Department of State." Actually Schelling's statement was prepared for the National Security and International Operations Subcommittee of the Senate's Government Operations Committee...
...unidentified member of the Student Mobilization Committee accused N.A.C. of "a sectarian political stand and sectarian tactics" and asked N.A.C. members to withdraw their support of the N.L.F. One N.A.C. member answered by saying "We are not just against the war, we are against the general pattern of the ruling of this country...