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MORATORIUM" was scarcely a household word a couple of months ago. The dictionary definition is "a period of permissive or obligatory delay," and to most people it meant a pause in paying one's debts or in talking. Now, suddenly, "moratorium" has become the focus of national attention in its special 1969 sense: M-day, Oct. 15, a movement intended by its organizers and supporters to show the Nixon Administration that large and growing numbers of Americans want out of the Viet Nam war as fast as possible...
...opposition was encouraged further when the American Bar Association, which originally supported Haynsworth's nomination, announced that it would have another look at the judge's qualifications. Scrutiny will focus on Haynsworth's alleged insensitivity to potential conflicts of interest. A negative reassessment by the A.B.A. would inevitably bring many undecided votes into the opposition column...
...October 15 approaches, supporters of the Moratorium are becoming less and less certain of whom their allies really are. The major split - between the Student Mobilization Committee (SMC) and those organizing specifically for the Moratorium - seems to focus on charges that SMC is dominated by the Trotskyite Young Socialist Alliance...
Boston University guarded the outside cornets well last week, depriving Harvard of its stock power sweep. The Crimson depends on the sweep for its bootleg and halfback option plays and if its effectiveness is limited it often has trouble switching its attack to focus on the resulting defensive weakness that arises from the special coverage...
...focus of the furor, Haynsworth, spent most of the turbulent week sequestered in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. He offered nothing publicly except the assurance that he had no intention of withdrawing under fire. At Nixon and Mitchell's behest, he submitted to extensive questioning from Assistant Attorney General William F. Rehnquist, who heads the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. Nixon knew that one more piece of damaging evidence against Haynsworth, however trivial, would surely tip the balance against the South Carolinian. Nixon wanted no more surprises. He seemed confident there would be none, and urged...