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...North Vietnamese and the Pathet Lao continued a threatening drive in Laos. Simultaneously, the North Vietnamese managed to scare the precarious new government of Cambodia. In the U.S., there are signs of reawakening dissent over the war. They have appeared in the U.S. Senate and at the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee and in such unexpected places as the Massachusetts legislature and Governor's office...
...Washington, the Viet Nam Moratorium Committee polished plans for nationwide antiwar demonstrations next week, its first major effort since the march on Washington in November. Pickets will show up in front of Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation. Explains Co-Coordinator David Hawk: "We're trying to get people to think and talk about the war in economic terms, to relate high defense spending to high taxes." "Boston tea parties" will be staged at Manhattan's Battery Park and along St. Louis' Mississippi riverfront. Fasts, rallies, parades and other demonstrations are planned for more than...
...including the organizers of next week's demonstrations, expects the turnout to match the massive outpouring for the first Moratorium Day last October. Still, the renewed attacks at home on his handling of the war in Asia will be yet another factor for Richard Nixon to consider as he compounds a prescription for U.S. tactics in Indochina. In declaring the Nixon Doctrine, on Guam, he pledged that the U.S. would honor existing guarantees to Asian countries, but made it clear that the nation had no heart for another Viet Nam. The Administration is also committed to press on with...
Less Buying Power. Many other strikes could begin soon. Next week, when a congressionally legislated strike moratorium expires, the nation's railroads could stop running. Members of shop-craft union locals are threatening to walk off the job regardless of what their leaders advise. On April 20, contracts covering some 70,000 rubber workers run out, and a strike is a distinct possibility. Later in the year, 38,000 meat packers, 23,000 retail grocery clerks and 660,000 auto workers will be free to strike because their contracts will also expire. All together, contracts covering...
...similar proposal last December by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, approved by the now-defunct Committee on Houses, noticed the group $1.57 per student for four meals rebated, May said. With 400 signatures now on the petition, the NAC plan could net the Panthers as much as $3300 by those figures-if put into effect by next Wednesday. Each week's delay would reduce that by about...