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TODAY'S Vietnam Moratorium will be the largest and probably the most important single protest against the American intervention in Vietnam since the war began. Whether or not such protests as these can ever by themselves succeed in forcing the Administration to withdraw from Vietnam, a successful Moratorium will clearly indicate to President Nixon that the political costs of continuing the war into the months ahead will be far greater than they have been until now. Everyone who stands for an immediate withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam should support today's Moratorium, and should do whatever...
...therefore worked out a plan whereby hunters would be allowed to kill up to 200 wolves a year within specified boundaries in Minnesota, but there would no longer be the traditional $50 bounty per wolf. The U.S. Department of the Interior then changed its mind and called for a moratorium on all wolf killing until a conservation program could be worked out. Lewis Regenstein, Washington director of the Fund for Animals, lobbied for the moratorium and was jubilant. "Contrary to legend, wolves are not hostile to man," he says. "There is not a single documented case of a healthy wolf...
...Moratorium. Bankers still have money to lend, but builders are reading the signs and cutting back construction of apartment houses in favor of single-family homes, townhouses and condominiums, all of which are still filling up rapidly. As a result, builders expect to get down to a rate of starts-still among the fastest in history-that can be sustained for years to come. Marriages are expected to average 2,200,000 a year through the 1970s, v. 1,800,000 annually in the 1960s, and each wedding creates a new family that is a prospective buyer or renter...
...Biscayne to San Clemente, reveling in the privacy that those retreats provide him. He treats Congress as an entity to be ignored or an obstacle to be surmounted, often to the distress of its members even in his own party. Although the Administration during the campaign observed a moratorium in its vendetta with the press, it has now begun a calculated drive to frighten the TV networks into more "balanced" coverage (see TELEVISION...
...referendum was the most recent action in the B.U. anti-military moratorium which began last spring with a demonstration protesting the presence of Marine Corps recruiters at the Office of Career Planning and Placement...