Committee Asks Viet Moratorium At U.S. Colleges

A nationwide committee of college newspaper editors and class presidents called this week for a one day "moratorium on 'business as usual'" at American universities this fall to protest the continuation of the war in Vietnam.

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The committee, headed by Sam Brown, a former McCarthy aide who is now a fellow of the Kennedy Institute of Politics at Harvard, is asking students and faculty to set aside their normal activities on Oct. 15 and instead "devote time and energy to the important work of taking the issue of peace in Vietnam to the larger community."

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"If there is no firm committment to an American withdrawal or a negotiated settlement on Oct. 15," the committee asks participants in the one day moratorium unions, and other groups for a longer moratorium in November. The process would continue until American policy in Vietnam is changed, the statement said.

At present, the committee is not organizing at Harvard, but it plans to do so soon.