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■ About the ceasefire: The American Friends Service Committee thinks the hitch to it is possible “new maneuvers by the Nixon Administration to subvert the agreement.” It warns that “the continuing U.S. program to aid the regime of President Thieu may contribute to the collapse of ceasefire hopes and the resumption of war.” (No word from The Friends about possible subversion on the Communist side.) . . . Joan Baez warns that the ceasefire would be “the grimmest it could be” if it were at the expense of the “300,000 political prisoners” in South Vietnam. . . . Left press very sore that George McGovern refused to take part in Trotskyist National Peace Action Coalition demonstration in Washington on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day. Didn’t want to look like a “sore loser,” explained McGovern. . . . Gallup reported 51 per cent of American people don’t think we should help rebuild North Vietnamese cities; 40 per cent do. (Headline in Boston Globe: “four out of ten Americans FAVOR HELP IN REBUILDING NORTH Vietnam.”). . . Ceasefire sent Russian poet Yevtushenko to his typewriter, came forth with paean in praise of American peacefighters Benjamin Spock and Jane Fonda, among others.

…U.S. News estimates cost of Vietnam war at $140 billion (Revolutionary War cost $75 million). . . . Chairman Richard Ichord of House Internal Security Committee says end of war won’t mean the end of revolutionary activity in the U.S. The revolutionaries, he says, will look for other issues, among them prison reform, busing, ecology, amnesty for draft-dodgers and deserters.

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■ About the ceasefire: The American Friends Service Committee thinks the hitch to it is possible “new maneuvers by the Nixon Administration to subvert the agreement.” It warns that “the continuing U.S. program to aid the regime of President Thieu may contribute to the collapse of ceasefire hopes and the resumption of war.” (No word from The Friends about possible subversion on the Communist side.) . . . Joan Baez warns that the ceasefire would be “the grimmest it could be” if it were at the expense of the “300,000 political prisoners” in South Vietnam. . . . Left press very sore that George McGovern refused to take part in Trotskyist National Peace Action Coalition demonstration in Washington on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day. Didn’t want to look like a “sore loser,” explained McGovern. . . . Gallup reported 51 per cent of American people don’t think we should help rebuild North Vietnamese cities; 40 per cent do. (Headline in Boston Globe: “four out of ten Americans FAVOR HELP IN REBUILDING NORTH Vietnam.”). . . Ceasefire sent Russian poet Yevtushenko to his typewriter, came forth with paean in praise of American peacefighters Benjamin Spock and Jane Fonda, among others.

…U.S. News estimates cost of Vietnam war at $140 billion (Revolutionary War cost $75 million). . . . Chairman Richard Ichord of House Internal Security Committee says end of war won’t mean the end of revolutionary activity in the U.S. The revolutionaries, he says, will look for other issues, among them prison reform, busing, ecology, amnesty for draft-dodgers and deserters.