Word: pacifists
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...PACIFIST as far back as the Korean War, Mendelsohn has liberally injected his view of social responsibilities into his other activities. In 1968, he visited Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand with the American Friends Service Committee, meeting with representatives of the NLF and North Vietnam. The three week study of Indochina's political structure and the effects of the war was extended unexpectedly when Mendelsohn's party was trapped in Saigon for ten days by the Tet offensive. "We saw the war a lot closer than we had planned," Mendelsohn recalls now. Upon his return, Mendelsohn embarked on his long, sometimes...
Died. Jeannette Rankin, 92, first woman ever elected to Congress; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. An outspoken suffragette and determined pacifist, Rankin was first sent to Congress by Montana voters in 1917, and was one of 50 Representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany. Returning for a second term in 1941, she again stunned her constituents by casting Congress' only vote against war with Japan. Though angry Montanans denied her another term, Rankin remained an active pacifist, and in 1968 led 5,000 women members of the Jeannette Rankin Brigade to Washington to protest the Viet...
...adventures of the Starship Enterprise and its interplanetal, international, interracial crew. There's the Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows deal with everything from...
...Juan's teachings can be analyzed as a melange of Zen, Sufism, the dream control of Tibetan Buddhism, and other disciplines. But this essentially Eastern message is transmitted by a member of the fierce Yaquis of northern Mexico, the only unconquered tribe of North America. Don Juan is no pacifist and no vegetarian--he is a warrior. The natural world of predator and prey is his pantheon: the cactus, rattlesnake, coyote, mountain lion--all of which are equal to man. Perhaps most Western of all, Don Juan says that he belongs to no social group. He is the supreme individual...
...Christian Science Monitor and the Sunday Times, and fumes about Mr. Nixon's latest imbecilities ("Well, what do you think about our current President?" she rejoined, after I had said that maybe things weren't going downhill as feel as she seemed to think). She is an adamant pacifist ("I've lived through five wars," she says, "and not one of them has done any good for more than a few months, as far as I can see"), and she believes that the United Nations, if strengthened, could be a way of achieving world peace if only national leaders would...