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Peaceniks planning get-out-of-Vietnam extravaganzas week-end of October 16- 17. Worker reports marches, pickets, seminars, teach-ins will be held in New York, Washington, Boston, New Haven, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, St. Paul, Portland, Atlanta and (natch!) Berkeley. . . A co-organizer of Berkeley demonstration is Robert Scheer, former member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, author of new booklet for (tax deductible) Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (Fund for the Republic) which says U.S. should have pulled out of Vietnam ten years ago, and that maybe Ho Chi Minh is what the South Vietnamese would be happiest with . . . Hastily mobilized Student Ad Hoc Committee for Freedom in Vietnam, headed by Young Democrats, Young Republicans, YAFers and independents, will hold a counter-demonstration (“A Symposium for Freedom in Vietnam”) in Washington over same week-end. Over 1,500 students expected to attend.

National Union of Protestants (England’s version of Protestants and Others United for Separation of Church and State) already sending around national petition against any visit by Pope Paul to Britain. . . . The Pope’s address to the UN is being rebroadcast to the Soviet Union by Radio Liberty . . . . Soviet press, radio coverage of the speech was minuscule, Peking’s zero. … French Left has finally found itself a presidential candidate in François Mitterand, Min, of Interior in Mendès-France’s 1954 cabinet at time when France’s biggest post-WW II spy scandal (“L’affaire des fuites”) exploded. In new united front, both the Socialist and the Communist parties will back Mitterand, as will other smaller left-of-center parties .

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Peaceniks planning get-out-of-Vietnam extravaganzas week-end of October 16- 17. Worker reports marches, pickets, seminars, teach-ins will be held in New York, Washington, Boston, New Haven, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, St. Paul, Portland, Atlanta and (natch!) Berkeley. . . A co-organizer of Berkeley demonstration is Robert Scheer, former member of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, author of new booklet for (tax deductible) Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (Fund for the Republic) which says U.S. should have pulled out of Vietnam ten years ago, and that maybe Ho Chi Minh is what the South Vietnamese would be happiest with . . . Hastily mobilized Student Ad Hoc Committee for Freedom in Vietnam, headed by Young Democrats, Young Republicans, YAFers and independents, will hold a counter-demonstration (“A Symposium for Freedom in Vietnam”) in Washington over same week-end. Over 1,500 students expected to attend.

National Union of Protestants (England’s version of Protestants and Others United for Separation of Church and State) already sending around national petition against any visit by Pope Paul to Britain. . . . The Pope’s address to the UN is being rebroadcast to the Soviet Union by Radio Liberty . . . . Soviet press, radio coverage of the speech was minuscule, Peking’s zero. … French Left has finally found itself a presidential candidate in François Mitterand, Min, of Interior in Mendès-France’s 1954 cabinet at time when France’s biggest post-WW II spy scandal (“L’affaire des fuites”) exploded. In new united front, both the Socialist and the Communist parties will back Mitterand, as will other smaller left-of-center parties .