Word: wars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Sam Brown first started sneaking around to student leaders with his plan for a major antiwar offensive early last spring, his big worry, he confided, was building a power base that extended beyond the student movement into "Middle America" where resentment against the war was strong but not well- defined...
After last Wednesday, though- after throngs of so-called Silent Americans turned up at anti-war rallies- Sam Brown's problem changed. Now he had his Middle America: how was he going to hold...
BROWN'S Moratorium crowd spans a spectrum that includes the student radicals on its left and disgruntled older voters who are speaking out against the war for the first time on its right. The Washington march splits them down the middle...
Meeting in Cleveland in July, New Mobe grew out of the old National Mobilization Committee to coordinate the different anti-war strategies of nearly 200 groups. Of these, the Moratorium was the most broadly based, but also one of the most conservative member groups...
Moratorium leaders, and especially Brown, have never been much interested in the politics of the street. With remembrances of the McCarthy campaign churning in his head. Brown must go to bed every night with visions of reviving the anti-war movement as peace-candidate campaign helpers in the 1970 elections. Brown can see the Congressional seat in Cambridge or his home town or Council Bluffs, Iowa, looming up for himself next fall, but to keep his political hopes alive, he must keep hold of Middle Americans, who cringe at the thought of 500,000 people massing in Washington...