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Folk Singer-Pacifist Joan Baez, 27, got married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth. The lucky man was David Harris, 22, ex-president of the Stanford student body who, like his bride, did time in jail after participating in last winter's antidraft demonstrations in Oakland; Harris is also under indictment for refusing induction into the armed forces...
Until the Tet offensive, Westmoreland's judgment had never been seriously questioned. There was no lack of dissent about the bombing and the basic U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, but rarely had a commander in the field been so immune to technical criticism of his own performance. Justly, management-minded Westmoreland was given great credit for the herculean logistical feats of 1965 and 1966. Until last year, anyway, his basic strategy, a compromise between search-and-destroy and a holding operation in the populated areas, seemed to be successful...
Kennedy, the man who not only challenged an incumbent President of his own party but also split the Democrats' anti-Johnson faction, gloried in his wide-swinging dissent. But, he said, it is members of the national leadership who "divide us." Though he used the plural, the only divider he named was "the President of the United States, President Johnson." Could he reconcile with Johnson, perhaps become his running mate? "A coalition government is possible in Viet Nam," cracked Kennedy. "But I don't think it is possible here...
...college student at his best respects dissent," he said. "The thing he dislikes is fakery...
INSTEAD of seeming to muffle dissent, Johnson now argues that he is defending his own right to articulate American policy in the face of forces which would deny him a hearing. "I'm not going to sit by and let [my programs of social justice] be torn down in a partisan political year," he told a Building and Construction Workers Union conference on Monday...