Protest: To Hanoi, from Dr. Spock

Americans who militantly oppose U.S. involvement in the Vietnamese war range all the way from the hysterical Vietniks of the far left to the less strident, pacifistically inclined groups that fault the Administration for backing a repressive right-wing regime in Saigon but offer no alternative to the Communist tyranny that would surely succeed it. The Vietniks so far have hogged most of the headlines with draft-card burnings, teach-ins and frenetic statements in support of the Viet Cong "revolution." Last week some 22,000 of the older, quieter protesters, from 140 groups, came to...

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