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Another April: the War Goes On

3 p.m. NAC will rally at the intersection of Commonwealth and Mass Aves and march as a red-flag contingent to the Boston Common, in support of Bobby Seale and the NLF.

3 p.m. A tentative SDS rally (details to be decided Tuesday) demanding "the conviction of policeman Duggan for the murder of Frank Lynch," "compensation for Lynch's family." and "all cops out of Boston City Hospital."

4-6 p.m. (approximately) The big rally on Boston Common. to be attended by everybody. This rally was originally voted on at the New England Anti-War Conference on Apr. 4. at which SDS and NAC proposals carried over those of SMC. As it now stands, the rally was organized primarily by SMC. who held a later meeting of their own, called "exclusionary" by SDS. The rally, according to Osborne, is intended as "a peaceful, legal demonstration."

A tentative list of speakers includes: Michael Kelly, SWP candidate for governor of Massachusetts; Carol Lipman, SMC national secretary: Ngo Viuh Dong: Engene J. McCarthy: Julian Bond. black Georgia Democrat: and Florence Lascombe of Women's Liberation.

SDS may still fight to put an SDS speaker on the plaform.

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Meanwhile SDS has issued four demands of its own-no military recruiting at Harvard, abolition of ROTC. promotion of painters' helpers, and 20 per cent black and third-world workers on construction sites-which will be put on a petition gathering support for a mass meeting the following Monday.

The Moratorium Committee, the most moderate of the rally's supporters. is also working toward canvassing for peace candidates, and is cirenlating a petition for the repeal of the draft.

6 p.m. or whenever the rally ends. NAC will march to the CIA office in Tech Square and rally. Further activity will be determined on the spot.

Whether or not any of this will have an effect on anyone is of course unclear, and it's hard to be optimistic. There was a similar spurt of anti-war activity in October and early November. when the supposedly escalating moratorium began, and we're all a little tired. But no one wants to stay indoors in Spring.

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