Word: moratorium
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...shift from love to hate, from pacifism to violence, was sharply visible in Manhattan. TIME Contributing Editor Mayo Mohs observed one line of the New York Moratorium March...
...strengths of last October's Moratorium Day observances was the diversity of the protesters: war veterans, businessmen, clergymen and housewives alongside gentle, earnest students and older radicals. That was not true last week for the third round of Moratorium observances. In too many cities across the nation, the day belonged to a new breed of hard-eyed youth-Brownshirts of radicalism drawn from the streets, many of only high-school age. The keynote was sounded by the Chicago Seven's Tom Hayden, who told a San Fernando Valley State College audience: "We turned out over a million people...
...obvious from the mood of Wednesday's crowd-even before the violence-that there could not be another mass rally. The Moratorium coordinators realized this even before April 15 and did the only thing they could really do-disband...
...those who are weary of the long struggle and want to see an immediate end to the war, political organizing from the bottom up will only bring more frustration. It will be a long, difficult job to try to cut Middle America out from underneath President Nixon-as the Moratorium leaders have set out to do-and the liberals like Sam Brown will have an increasingly more difficult time enlisting support...
...disbanding of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee marks the end of yet another chapter in the continuing story of the anti-war movement...