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...October 16, turn-ins were organized across the country to begin an anti-war, anti-draft week that would culminate in a march on the Pentagon "to confront the warmakers." In Boston, 237 men, including 23 Harvard students, burned or turned in their cards. In New York, Baton Rogue, and San Francisco the scene was the same. In Oakland, California, all through the week, anti-war demonstrators trying to march on the induction center there battled police, and the New York Times showed you the blood on the front page...
...speak not only of war, poverty, and racial injustice, though these are the most painful issues, but also of the disaffection of our own generation and the polarization, the pig-headedness and refusal to confront the real problems on both sides of so many conflicts international and local...
Fred "Louisville" Glimp's Administration All-Chumps will confront the University's winningest athletic combine, the CRIMSON, in the softball game of the decade tomorrow at 1 p.m. on Soldiers Field...
...policy-maker has yet formulated any coherent negotiating platform for the coming talks. This may be a bargaining tactic, aimed at leaving U.S. diplomats elbow room at the negotiating table. But it seems more likely that U.S. policy-makers have simply failed to confront the central issues. Poor planning took its propaganda toll last month as the Johnson Administration, failing to consider the implications of its rhetoric, promised to meet "anywhere, anyplace" with Communist negotiators, and then reneged on the promise...
...internal political democracy--to eliminate the wretched social conditions which underlie the 27-year-old peasant revolt throughout Vietnam. Thus, if the United States intends to avoid a "fake" solution in Southeast Asia, its leader--whoever is elected to succeed President Johnson--must make the forthcoming peace talks squarely confront a vast panoply of long-standing problems, of which the current war is only the most recent expression...