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...continued indications that the level of battle is lowering. He warned Hanoi that any stepped-up enemy action would bring "strong and effective measures" in response. It was a tough speech, and in it there was no gesture of accommodation to those who backed the Oct. 15 Moratorium protest. The President announced no new withdrawal of U.S. troops and proclaimed no cease-fire on the battlefield...
Agnew is not merely seeking political capital in the South, nor is his rhetoric aimed only at Moratorium marchers and other opponents of the war. Rather, he is emerging as a kind of improbable mahdi of Middle America. His often odd, occasionally clownish locutions, rendered in a W. C. Fields singsong, are abristle with nostalgias and assumptions of what American life ought to be. Armored in the certitudes of middle-class values, he speaks with the authentic voice of Americans who are angry and frightened by what has happened to their culture, who view the '60s as a disastrous montage...
Yesterday, over 200 Moratorium volunteers went to Memorial Hall, where the Moratorium Committee and SMC assigned canvassing districts and supplied leaflets...
Today the Cambridge community will observe the moratorium by canvassing, leafleting, and repairing buildings...
Harvard's Vietnam Moratorium Committee is organizing the major activities, which include passing out leaflets of "Bring Them Home," circulating petitions against the war, and cleaning up buildings...