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Chester Bowles, Special Presidental Representative and Adviser on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs, proclaimed last week that apartheid in South Africa is “the worst situation in the world today.” Repeat: “the worst situation in the world today.” End comment.

Strike for Peace’s most ambitious enterprise to date, a week-long demonstration in New York City (Monday: Don’t Buy Anything. Wednesday: Picket War Industries. Sunday: Honor those who have refused all military service and other conscientious objectors; and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday assemble here, march there, picket those) got off to an unscheduled start, the elements butting in. Scene: Columbus Circle. Purpose: Major airlift of 500 helium-filled balloons with pacifist leaflets. Destination: Cuba, Russia, Canada. Participants: 100 strikeforpeacers. Uninvited Guest: a 50-mile-an-hour gale which snatched balloons from strikers, tossed them against buildings, scattered the leaflets down the grey and rain-lashed canyon toward Madison Square Garden, strikeforpeacers panting in hot pursuit. It was peace the hard way.

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Chester Bowles, Special Presidental Representative and Adviser on African, Asian and Latin American Affairs, proclaimed last week that apartheid in South Africa is “the worst situation in the world today.” Repeat: “the worst situation in the world today.” End comment.

Strike for Peace’s most ambitious enterprise to date, a week-long demonstration in New York City (Monday: Don’t Buy Anything. Wednesday: Picket War Industries. Sunday: Honor those who have refused all military service and other conscientious objectors; and Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday assemble here, march there, picket those) got off to an unscheduled start, the elements butting in. Scene: Columbus Circle. Purpose: Major airlift of 500 helium-filled balloons with pacifist leaflets. Destination: Cuba, Russia, Canada. Participants: 100 strikeforpeacers. Uninvited Guest: a 50-mile-an-hour gale which snatched balloons from strikers, tossed them against buildings, scattered the leaflets down the grey and rain-lashed canyon toward Madison Square Garden, strikeforpeacers panting in hot pursuit. It was peace the hard way.