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...been the lifeblood of traditional Vietnamese politics. Preparing for compromise, they have set up a new front for their National Liberation Front: the Alliance of National Democratic and Peace Forces of Viet Nam. Since the South Vietnamese constitution bans Communist political parties, the Alliance is a showcase of socialist, pacifist and nationalist-but not openly Communist-South Vietnamese, including Thich Don Hau, the representative of the Buddhist church in Hue, who is one of its deputy chairmen. In recent weeks, its members have gone into hiding in the cities or quietly slipped away into the jungle to avoid arrest...
Folk Singer-Pacifist Joan Baez, 27, got married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth. The lucky man was David Harris, 22, ex-president of the Stanford student body who, like his bride, did time in jail after participating in last winter's antidraft demonstrations in Oakland; Harris is also under indictment for refusing induction into the armed forces...
Pike also called for a reconvening of the Nuremberg trials to punish U.S. war crimes in Vietnam. Claiming that he wasn't a pacifist, he did not condemn Viet Cong terrorism. "Freedom fighters have to be rough," he said...
Couching his pacifist message in Gallic irony, Giraudoux bandies about the question of whether the Trojans should pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman. As with the role of Cleopatra, it is virtually impossible for any actress to live up to that kind of advance billing. Jennifer West fails abysmally by playing Helen as a dumb, dumb blonde, more waitress than temptress; far from launching a thousand ships, it appears doubtful whether she could pilot a coffee cup across a hash house...
Last spring, he turned down several lucrative professional offers to come to Harvard. "I was disappointed to find out that Harvard didn't have any intercollegiate boxing programs," he recalled, "but I didn't want to go to a place like Annapolis just for that. I'm a pacifist at heart...