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...Vietnam Moratorium Committee-organizer of the largest anti-war demonstrations in American history-announced Sunday that it was disbanding...
...Moratorium Committee-composed mainly of former volunteers in the 1968 Presidential campaigns of the late Robert F. Kennedy '48 and Eugene J. McCarthy-organized the nation-wide class boycotts and anti-war demonstrations of October 15 in which over a million people participated...
Local committees and offices will continue to operate despite the disbanding of the national headquarters. Richard Zorza '71, co-ordinator of the Harvard Moratorium Committee, said yesterday that his organization will not continue to operate separately but will work with Massachusetts Peace Action Committee (Mass PAX) in supporting anti-war candidates in this fall's congressional elections...
...Harvard Moratorium supporters will also continue to work for repeal of the draft, and plan to send representatives to Washington next week to meet with several Senators...
Brown, who was a fellow at the Institute of Polities last year when the idea of the Moratorium was first conceived, denied that the mass demonstrations had failed. "I am pleased with what we've done," he said yesterday. "I think it was the right thing."sense of futility that characterized the Boston Common rally...