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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1970
Page
4
A 1287 household survey shows 52 percent condemn antiwar protests while 53 percent oppose outlawing them. Forty seven percent disagree with labeling protesters as bum, revealing ambivalence toward war and demonstrations and a strong defense of protest as a constitutional right.
Postmaster General Winton M. Blount, at Montgomery Academy, says youths are unfairly condemned as a radical force in war. He stresses a small minority of undisciplined youths and warns that Indochina war will be a central fact in the lives of the graduating students.
Senator Edmund Muskie, speaking at William and Mary College, urged a truce among political groups and tolerance for dissent. He cited Kent State and Jackson State as shocks that exposed fear and questioned White House responses, noting pressure to conform from administration spokesmen and the so called silent majority.
Peace Corps Director Joseph Blatchford told 191 Kenyon College graduates that the greatest threat to the nation’s future is the increasingly excessive behavior of men of all persuasions. He urged discarding romantic illusions and hot rhetoric as courses of action.
Sol Linowitz former ambassador says Vice President Agnew's name calling pushes moderate students toward radical campus leaders. Alexander Heard and James Hester warn dialogue may not cool campus tensions and deepening fear could empower true radical groups.
Dean Rusk urged onstage at St Bonaventure University commencement that if collective security fails as a path to world peace the United States must seek another solution. He warned of isolationism returning and charged graduates to carry the peace debate to the public. He received an honorary doctor of laws.
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