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Others filled Memorial Hall and part of Lowell Lec to hear former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, Rep. Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.), New York Times columnist Tom Wicker and six other official speakers declaim against American policy in Southeast Asia. Others listened on WGBH radio. Harvard station WHRB broadcast the Beanpot hockey game...
...surprise hit of the evening was Wicker, who, in a remarkably militant speech, called Vietnam "a war to preserve American delusions of grandeur-a war of war crimes...
Nine speakers, including former Senator Eugene McCarthy, New York Times associate editor Tom Wicker, and M. I. T. professor Noam Chomsky, will address the gathering. Chomsky was added to the list of speakers late last week along with Donald F. Reigle, a Republican Congressman from Michigan. The meeting will be chaired by Michael Walzer, professor of Government...
...lack of specific information in the indictment, coupled with the Justice Department's refusal to amplify, has fueled the suspicions of skeptics, although some who initially dismissed the indictments as some mad joke now take them more gravely. In the New York Times, Tom Wicker argued that "if the Government cannot sustain these serious charges?better, for instance, than it was able to justify those against the Chicago Seven?it will provide another shocking example of the kind of official hysteria that so often damages individuals and clouds the public climate." Later the Times noted editorially: "Reason must await...
...unity and a private understanding from Gromyko that the renuniciation-of-force treaty would pave the way toward progress in the Big Four talks on Berlin. In an unusually cordial gesture, Gromyko invited Scheel for the weekend to his dacha outside Moscow. Shucking their coats and settling down in wicker chairs, the two men reviewed their negotiations while sipping tea, cognac and kvass, and ended the evening swapping hunting stories...