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Protesters at the state capitol building
March officials confer with Washington police
KU protest calmer
Moratorium activities on the KU campus Nov. 14 and 15 were less pronounced than the Oct. 15 observance.
Speeches and teach-ins were presented by several KU professors and moratorium supporters, but the attendance figures were lower for this month's observance.
Decreased participation on the campus level was partially due to the focus of national attention on the Washington march. A similar march in Topeka attracted many moratorium supporters from KU.
ON THE KU campus, Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr. defended his support of the October and November war moratoriums as a constitutional privilege of all American citizens.
Speaking briefly before nearly 350 students in Hoch Auditorium, Chalmers said it had been suggested that the failure of the administration to prevent participation in the moratorium bordered upon the crime of high treason.
After reading the Constitutional interpretation of treason, Chalmers said that none of the activities of thousands of KU students on Oct. 15 were in conflict with any laws, policies or procedures.
"TO THE BEST of my knowledge, none of the activities proposed this week are in conflict with laws, policies or procedures," he said.
At an open class attended by about 50 students, Howard Kahane, associate professor of philosophy, said that atrocities committed by the United States on South Vietnamese civilians were comparable to those committed by the German Nazis on the Jews.
In New Haworth, John Wright, associate professor of human development, criticized the policy of the Nixon administration. Wright said that the president had "dipped into the silent majority and come up with a "couple of cupfuls of people" but that anti-war factions had also dipped in this well with the same result.
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SEVERAL PROFESSORS spoke at an open microphone in the rotunda of Strong Hall. One of these, Donald Marquis, acting assistant professor of philosophy, reviewed President Nixon's speech on Vietnam.
"Agnew's and Nixon's idea of a speech is to appeal to the 'gut sentiment' of loyal Americans," he said. "Our case, in contrast to theirs, appeals to those who have the slightest bit of rationality. We must tell them that these consequences simply don't exist, or, where they do, they are insignificant."
In another speech in the rotunda, Lawrence Velvet, associate professor of law, said that the term "traitor" could be applied more deservingly to those who criticized the exercise of a permanent American right, such as freedom of the press, than to those who were criticizing only a temporary element in America, such as the Vietnam war.
WHILE MOST OF those who supported the moratorium did so by attending speeches and wearing black armbands, some showed their support in other ways.
The meal of rice, green beans, bean sprouts and tea was symbolic of Vietnamese meals.
IN KANSAS CITY, 92 moratorium supporters, ranging in age from 14 through the early thirties, stood waiting in 28 degree weather Thursday night for two buses to transport them to Washington.
Two moratorium supporters, Carol Chittenden, a member of the Student Mobilization Committee, and Jim Baldoni, Old Saybrook, Conn. junior, prepared a rice lunch at the UCCF Center to help finance mortorium activities.
A mother boarded the bus with her 14-year-old daughter. Another parent boarded the bus carrying an infant.
The majority were silent.
Washington police block entrance to a federal building
Students jam Washington
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members of the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society and police and a disruption in downtown Washington Saturday afternoon that resulted in broken store windows were the only two events that marred the calmness of the three-day protest.
Buses carrying KU students and Kansas City residents arrived in Washington late Friday night and unloaded near Arlington Cemetery. KU students began marching in the March Against Death about 2 a.m. Saturday.
Marsals directed the silent marchers, who carried candles, the $4\frac{1}{2}$ mile route. Troops and riot-equipped policemen guarded federal buildings along the route. Demonstrators were asked to yell the name of the serviceman on their card in front of the White House—loud enough for "those" inside to hear.
AT THE CAPITOL, shuttle buses and sympathetic Washington residents in cars awaited demonstrators who had marched for 2½ hours in the bone-chilling cold.
Reception centers to temporarily house the demonstrators were established throughout the Washington area by the New Mobe. Kansas participants were driven to the New York Presbyterian Church in downtown Washington.
Hot coffee and donuts awaited marchers at the reception center. Leaders of New Mobe made sleeping arrangements and provided transportation from the center for the marchers.
HOUSING FOR demonstrators was abundant. American University lodged almost 200 protesters, while high schools and churches also opened their doors to sleepy marchers.
Banner and sign-laden people began
gathering about 8:30 a.m. Saturday in the Washington Mall for the massive march which was to start at 11 a.m.
Police lines circled federal buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue but many smiled and spoke to the anti-war demonstrators. The parade paused momentarily in front of the Justice Department building, while marchers chanted, "Hell no, we won't so."
MARCHERS REMAINED peaceful during the parade and throughout the afternoon at the rally at the Washington Monument.
The rally began shortly after noon Saturday. Many huddled in sleeping bags or blankets at the edge of the crowd. Some formed circles and built fires from placard handles and literature.
Speakers at the rally included comedian Dick Gregory, Sen. George S. McGovern, D-S.D., Sen. Charles Goddell, D-N.Y., and Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr.
GREGORY'S MAIN target was Vice-
President Spiro T. Agnew.
McGovern told the crowd, "We meet to declare peace and to put an end to the war not at some time in the future, but now."
In his address, Goddell said, "We are not here to break a president. We are here to break a war and begin a peace."
MRS. KING SAID, "We have been told we cannot afford the humiliation of withdrawal. I feel that even less can we afford the humiliation of pursuing war for ignoble ends."
Although speakers and entertainers were still going strong, thousands began to drift away from the area about 2:30 p.m.—many seeking respite from the cold. Saturday evening, demonstrators ran into a massive traffic jam that clogged downtown Washington.