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Bert Yaffe was chairman of the October 15th Moratorium in Massachusetts and is now running for Congress in the Tenth District. Yaffe has been fighting hard for peace for a long time. He firmly opposed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 and became deeply involved in the anti-war...
In 1969, Yaffe along with Jerome Grossman and other members of Mass PAX (Massachusetts Political Action for Peace) decided that some form of protest was necessary to oppose the Nixon-Johnson policies in Vietnam. In May, PAX met with Dave Hawk, Sam Brown and Dave Mixner and the Moratorium began...
Yaffe is opposing incumbent Republican Margaret Heckler. Mrs. Heckler, as Yaffe is fond of saying, "has voted on every side of every issue." She opposed ABM, but voted for the military appropriations bill containing ABM. She first voted for the appropriations for the Department of Housing and Urban Development, but...
Yaffe, who is Fall River coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union, won the Democratic primary with 58 per cent of the votes cast. He defeated another peace candidate, Dennis Smith, who is now campaigning enthusiastically for Yaffe ("Bert Yaffe has proposed more creative legislation in the last four months...
Yaffe is speaking out against excessive military spending and the war, and has hit hard on economic issues. At a recent debate with Mrs. Heckler, for example, after Mrs. Heckler had said in reply to Yaffe's sharp criticism of the 8.5 per cent unemployment rate in Fall River, that...