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...Bert Yaffe was chairman of the October 15th Moratorium in Massachusetts and is now running for Congress in the Tenth District. Yaffe has been fighting hard for peace for a long time. He firmly opposed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution in 1964 and became deeply involved in the anti-war movement in 1965. He raised funds for anti-war candidate Thomas Boylston Adams in 1966 and was Tenth District coordinator and on the Massachusetts steering committee for Eugene McCarthy in 1968. He is also a businessman who unionized his own plant (with the Textile Workers Union of America) where there...
...Yaffe along with Jerome Grossman and other members of Mass PAX (Massachusetts Political Action for Peace) decided that some form of protest was necessary to oppose the Nixon-Johnson policies in Vietnam. In May, PAX met with Dave Hawk, Sam Brown and Dave Mixner and the Moratorium began...
Yaffe, who was Massachusetts chairman for the October 15th Moratorium last year, was on the Massachusetts steering committee for McCarthy in 1968. He is also vice chairman of Mass PAX (Massachusetts Political Action for Peace), a Cambridge-based group...
...Harvard-Radcliffe chapter of the Student Mobilization Committee voted last night to change its mind and support the national moratorium on October 31, including the antiwar demonstration on Boston Common...
...their own territories in Faculty meetings. Hilary Putnam was the SDS man on the Faculty, Martin L. Kilson, Professor of Government, was the Young People's Socialist League representative: Mendelsohn, a young political mover named Mark Ptashne, lecturer in Biology, and George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, became the Moratorium spokesmen...