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Thou Shalt Not Kill. For other Quakers, Morrison's act raised questions both as a suicide and as a pacifist protest. Although the Friends profess deep reverence for human life, their doctrine includes no specific condemnation of suicide; most Quakers were content to let God judge Morrison's self-slaughter. And while they could quarrel with his grisly form of martyrdom, there was no disputing that the vast majority of Friends shared Morrison's misgiving about the Viet Nam war, or any other war. Along with the Brethren movement and the Mennonites, the Friends have been...
...recruiting center in lower Manhattan, a self-styled "Catholic pacifist" burned his draft card. Though willful destruction of a draft card is punishable by a five-year jail term under a recently enacted federal law, the student declared: "Christ would not have carried this card. Neither will I." One spectator shouted at the unkempt crowd: "Get inside. It's going to rain. You'll get clean...
...sight of blood. But he's not bothered when violence breaks out, "because it's usually my own blood and I can stand that." He then trained for the ministry but refused ordination because of discrimination in the church. During the war he was race-relations secretary to a pacifist organization and afterwards a labor organizer and radio commentator. Now as CORE's chief planner and spokesman, he makes over 200 speeches a year, but never uses notes or a text. "I haven't time to prepare them," he claims. Only as he approached Burr...
...innocence, Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet accepted an invitation to add, at the end of its current English tour, a benefit performance for the Peace Foundation of cantankerous Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 93, campaigning for nuclear disarmament and U.S. withdrawal from Viet Nam. In glee, the foundation announced its catch. In wrath, the Foreign Office insisted that the benefit was off because "in pursuit of better Anglo-Soviet cultural relations the government cannot allow Soviet artists to be involved in internal politics in this country." In embarrassment, the Bolshoi protested that that was the last thing it wanted. And in righteous...
...front organization. In McCarthy's heyday Communist terminology was tossed about too carelessly, and in many quarters today words and realities such as "infiltration" no longer seem entirely credible. Yet the leading fronts still reflect the reality and breadth of the Communist subversive effort. They range from pacifist groups such as the World Peace Council (headquartered in Prague) and the International Institute of Peace (Vienna) to various youth and professional outfits such as the International Union of Students and the International Association of Democratic Lawyers (Prague and Brussels). Most of these organizations-many launched by non-Communists with...