STUDENT'S PARLEY DENOUNCES U.S. AS 'AGGRESSOR'

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• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 23, 1999
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 20, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

^71 Ccrfd.dnceiconference delegates that they
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The first National Student Con-1
fcrence on Vietnam adopted al
stand harshly critical of the;
United States early today aiterj
es
r
said the conference had been ` l oo Yn an ?-; of the students of the United
aica, Queens), one fromlStates.
ri~~cd by extreme leftists, i
--e
C_"F Come!! Cd!1 It 'iJJ
Jy aireme Leh:
sti
Hiroo delegates from Fordham
an anry walkout by nine pro- Ifence is in any way representa-
Administration delegates whol niversity, four from Sa.John's!
e
111 d J tive of the views of the majorit
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sacli Vu-setts. Institute of "This has been lied b 'tli
p Y ?
Tech - im
iercnce vo ed, 51 to ~2,? for a!nology, announcement,, of the confe -
once committee, and we feel
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! Conduct Criticized that we cannot give any cre-
son ?hdministrati^,n to stop
with- They said the conference, heldidenee to this."
bombin
cease firin
g,
g,
on the Cornell University Uni-
draw its troops and recogn z- versity campus, did not repre-
the Communist-dominated ivaIs
tional %Uberation Front as alent the mainstream of student
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f Vi
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t
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"major bargaining agent" at
peace talks,
it accused the United States
of having caused heavy civilian
casualties by the use of "abhor_
n
op
on o
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nam.
y a
so
criticized the conduct of the
They charged an imbalance
of guest speakers. Of 11 listed
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e agen
y three,
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rent weapons." American nol-l""?
icy on Vietnam, it said, has said, were supporters of United
been evil from the outset. (state policy.
of . Rutgers said, "that to re-
join the conference at this time
would give de facto recog ition
Another bolter, John Sains-
bury of St. John's (Jamaica),
said:
"We have voted with our
feet as a last resort to present
an opinion in favor of a policy
which accepts our committment
to self-determination for South
Vietnam."
The others who left were
James T. Farley; lI{evin Reilly
and Tom Frederick, of Ford-
French colonialists, supported a!Departsnent representative had!hain, Roy Latham of M.I.T. 0,1,
tyrannical regime in the Southllbeen booed . and hissed and Joseph Salvati, Peter Sansosti
and responded to protests froml - tilat anot:cr pro-Adrninistration~and Emil Lugo of St. John'
an oppressed people with rnili-ju pea.lcer, Prof Wesley R. Fashel l,(Brooklyn).
tion said.
'Prattdeil an Aggressor'
For those reason "the United
inal draft, would have "e ncour- ployetl by the late Senator145 for a resolution sponsored b
aged" the nation's youth to."re- Joseph R. McCarthy, Repubiica+ilthe Yale delegation.
fuse to fight." of Wisconsin, in asking wit-I The Yale resolution said that
This was deleted when a dole- flosses to confess . their Corn- the United States had "majo
gate observed that it "getsmunits ties. . Ii?esponsibility' for tci?rninatin
pretty close to treason.". ? ' "T_ am. not now. and never! this war" but was Gonsiderabl
It was replaced with a morejhave been ?a? member of the milder in its criticism than th
moderate expression of Fishel.replied. Imajorityposikion and said tha
thy for objectors wihb d ,,'"what especially! irked theithe presence of American troop
after be jailed than fight Inane de-ectos? was what ?theylin South Vietnam was a usefu
Bolting.tha: convention, v>erL,coni rt e:~~:~:e.";~resu+.r.7tlosa" .o lever vl negotiations.
night that they called remini-
scent of the McCarthy era.
"Is it not time that you matte
States has been branded an ag-1a clean breast of your affilia-
gressor throughout the world,"tion with the Central Intclh-
the resolution said. .;ence Agency?, -'-drr,.ancded---o
Sponsored chiefly by delegr Cohn hi;.University stuudent of
and the University of Pc?nnsyl= =fessor Fashel in what AQ-
tions from Columbia University ministration supporters describ-
'vania, the resolution, in its orig- ed as. the same manner em-
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nied a voice by a rules decision
that any statement accepted as
a minority opinion of the con-
ference would have to gain a
least 20% of the votes. ?
The walkout came shortly
after midnight when a sta
vote showed that the pro
Administration resolution ob
tamed only 12 votes against 5`