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sociate professor of human development, will hold an open class in the Toddler's Room in New Haworth Hall. Howard Kahane, associate professor of philosophy, will also conduct an open class at 10:30 am. in 205 Flint Hall.
Several students and faculty of the School of Business will hold an open student-faculty discussion at 1:30 p.m. in 302 Summerfield Hall.
Beginning at 10 a.m. and lasting until 1 p.m., a rice lunch will be served at the United Campus Christian Fellowship building. The charge for the meal is 50 cents.
Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers Jr, will speak briefly at a teach-in at 3:30 p.m. in Hoch Auditorium.
At the teach-in, three faculty members will also discuss the historical, sociological and chemical and biological affects of the Vietnam war. They are William R. Arnold, associate professor of sociology, James L. Koevenig, associate professor of biology and Michael J. Maher, associate professor of biology.
In a statement released Tuesday, the mobilization committee outlined its main objectives in the war moratorium as an end to the Vietnam war, and the immediate withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. The statement included the assumption that the war is politically centered and unjust, and reaffirmed that the committee does not condone violence in expressing its views.
The immediate goal of the committee, according to the statement, is to "get the body of undecided citizens to think about the validity of the Vietnam war."
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campaign press secretary in 1964,
estimated that 15,000 persons
turned out, but U.S.park police
Lt. Archie L. Fingan said it
totaled 10,000 at its peak.
Along with the oratory and music—patriotic and country—the audience showed its sentiments with "tell it to Hanoi" lapel buttons and placards reading "do your thing, Dick—the silent majority" and "sock it to Hanoi."
Several signs chose as their target Sen. J. William Fulbright. One read: "Send Fulbright to Vietnam." Another: "Judas William Fulbright."
Sen. John Tower, R-Tex., the featured speaker at the monument rally, said he hoped similar pro-administration demonstrations would be held in the future to show that "we still love liberty more than life itself."
"We Americans don't start wars," he said. "We only finish them."
Rep. Donald E. "Buz" Lukens, R-Richo, denounced the war protesters as "new barbarians attempting through carnival-like tactics to impose their minority view on the American public."
Rep. John Buchanan, R-Ala., said he was convinced that Nixon's policy would succeed and added: "Both the strength and the virtue of the Saigon regime have been greatly underestimated by its critics."
"The unity that has always been the bedrock of America needs expression today more than at any time in the past century," Johnson said, before a full crowd of 3,000 persons waving tiny American flags at the Arlington Cemetery amphitheater.
Opponents of Nixon's Vietnam peace plan, Johnson said, "would have others think that they alone understand and abhor the suffering and savagry of war. They do an injustice to America's 40 million veterans, living and dead."
An estimated 90,000 persons turned out in Hayward, Calif., to watch a parade of more than 3,000 persons—one of the six parades in the nation officially designated by the President's Veterans Day Committee. Watchers stood eight deep at points along the route.
Police estimated 35,000 persons lined a parade route in Chicago's Loop. Thousands watched parades in New York City.
Some 50,000 persons ignored rain in Providence, R.I., and heard Mayor Joseph A. Doorley Jr. lash out at moratorium participants. Doorey, said, "People carrying flags of our enemies—and we have seen incidents of this in the past several months—are committing an act of treason."
Speaking in Minneapolis, Minn., on the 50th anniversary of the first American Legion convention, Legion National Commander J. Milton Patrick urged full support of the President's policies.
"All legionnaires and most Americans are crying out for the
militants and revolutionaries to be put down," he said.
Throughout the nation, the "silent" people flew flags and drove cars with headlights on.
President Nixon greeted veterans of three wars in the lobby of the District of Columbia Veterans Hospital and then, with reporters barred, toured the wards with Mrs. Nixon.
The President visited the veterans hospital because, as he had said earlier, he wanted to "let them know that the nation has not forgotten their service and sacrifices."
In Lawrence, activities were limited to ceremonies in South Park sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the American Legion and the Veterans of World War I. The Rev. Harold G. Barr, dean emeritus of the School of Religion, spoke at the meeting. He said he was "disturbed and confused" about the increasing disharmony among Americans over foreign and domestic policy.
A minor scuffle broke out at the park when Douglas A. Hensley, Wichita senior, was chased by a member of the American Legion and allegedly struck. Hensley said he had been talking to members of the Legion about the war and communism.
Dale Kerr, commander of American Legion Post 14, said his organization did not have anything planned in the way of a counter-demonstration for November 15th.
The VFW will also have no official observances' during the moratorium. Asked if he had any plans for the moratorium, Arthur Olson Jr., senior vice-president of the VFW said: "I'm going to fly the flag."
HOME ACCIDENT DEATHS
NEW YORK—Accidents in homes cost more than 28,500 persons their lives in 1968, reports the Insurance Information Institute.
Pathet Lao threatening criminal trials for airmen
VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI)—An official of the Communist Pathet Lao organization said Tuesday more than 158 American airmen are being held captive in Laos and repeated a threat that they will be tried as criminals.
"The United States and Laos have never formally declared
The official, Soth Petrasi, displayed a list of the Americans and said it included 51 whose planes were shot down over Laos last year and 41 who were captured between January and June of this year.
war and therefore there will be no prisoners," Soth told newsmen. "They will be tried by a Laotian peoples court as criminals."
The threat of trials has been raised several times by the Pathet Lao, but there has never been any information on whether such trials are actually held or if the threat is merely a propaganda move.
For the first time, however, Soth said Tuesday he would try to forward letters and telegrams sent him by the relatives of the
captured Americans. He has previously rejected all such requests
The list Soth displayed Tuesday is one which originates from American sources and is forwarded to him periodically by the International Red Cross.
U. S. officials have never admitted American air activity over Laos other than armed reconnaissance flights. But military sources have reported that U.S. air strikes, including close support missions for ground troops, have involved as many as 500 planes per day over Laos.