Word: moratorium
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...least a million Americans joined yesterday in the largest anti-war demonstration in the nation's history. From Boston to Berkeley the Moratorium supporters heard speeches, conducted marches, and held silent vigils demanding an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam...
...those who support President Nixon. People opposed to the Moratorium displayed flags. drove with their car headlights on, and listened to speeches. Sen. Barry Voldwater (R-Ariz.) told one crowd in Anaheim, California, that "Moratorium participants are playing into the hands of those whose business it is to kill American fighting...
College towns were the center of most of the Moratorium activity. Though most college students did not object to the protest, in the deep South demonstrators clashed with anti-Moratorium students. Despite this, at Duke University and the University of North Carolina officials reported that only slightly more than half of the student body attended classes...
...other universities, however, Moratorium activities accounted for small percentages of student bodies. At Texas Tech 300 of 19,500 students demonstrated; at Oregon State about 1,000 of 15,000 turned out to hear talks; at Temple University about 1,000 students out of a total of 34,000 attended a vigil...
...demand for immediate withdrawal by the national Moratorium committee was watered down in several of yesterday's speeches. Bill D. Moyers, former aide to President Johnson and publisher of Newsday, told an overflow crowd of 900 in Trinity Church in New York that the war should be ended "in whatever way the President decides...