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...Despair. The Washington demonstration was the kind that the cops could have brought their children to; at least one policeman did. Unlike 1969, Government buildings were not guarded by visible contingents of troops last week.,The area around Lafayette Square and the White House was not closed off by bumper-to-bumper buses as it was in May 1970. College students, though still the largest single group, seemed proportionately fewer. Teeny-boppers abounded in the crowd. Organized labor took part in greater numbers than before; burly Teamsters acted as marshals around the speakers' platform. In San Francisco...
...experiencing the physical world comes more and more to mean bumper-to-bumper travel through neon corridors and foul air to beaches slicked with oil and cesspools that were once rivers and lakes, the attraction to a fantasy of internal travel to now experiences becomes more compelling...
...FREE CALLEY reads the bumper sticker (next to another reading "Don't Forget the POW's"). After all, war is war and people get killed, so why pick on one man for doing what happens all the time...
...course, their first reaction, as the bumper stickers point out, is to say that war is necessarily brutal, that murder in war is not murder, that women and children are still "the enemy." Calley, then, becomes the victim of an ungrateful government...
...turnout; in San Diego, for example, only 250 supporters-a mixed bag of John Birchers and antiwar protesters-turned out to rally and march for Calley. "The President sort of took the steam out of people," said Terry Repsher, a Houston high school junior. Dallas, however, bloomed with bumper stickers demanding: WHY CALLEY? A giant pro-Calley billboard blossomed in Bridgeport, Conn. But from the Timber Ridge School in Skokie, Ill., a Chicago suburb, 41 students wrote Nixon: "We are ten and eleven years old and afraid to grow up in America if a murderer is considered a hero...