James Lafferty’s campaign for the Congress from the 17th District on Detroit’s far West side took on a new dimension with the appearance in the district of a leaflet branding Lafferty a “traitor” and calling the FIFTH ESTATE an “anti-Christian, …
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Fifth Estate Issue #11, July 30, 1966 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME
DETROIT: Six weeks ago the News Editor of the FIFTH ESTATE sent an inquiry to the Defense Department regarding the validity of an article in the VIETNAM COURIER, a paper published in Hanoi, reflecting the political positions of that country. …
VOICE, the University of Michigan Chapter of Students for a Democratic Society has called for regional action Aug. 8 at the Dow Chemical Corp. in Midland, Mich., protesting that company’s production of napalm for use on Vietnamese villages.
Fifth Estate Issue #10, July 15, 1966 WEB CONTENTS ALL FIFTH ESTATE ISSUES FIFTH ESTATE HOME
The Committee for Independent Political Action (CIPA) on the West Side of New York City was formed at the end of the summer of 1965, on the basis of a draft statement prepared by two editors of Studies on the …
July Draft WASHINGTON, May 6. The defense Department yesterday boosted the draft back up to 26,000 men for July compared to 15,000 in June. The July quota, all for the Army, was nearly 5,000 above the 21,700-man draft in April, …
According to Time Magazine, prostitution has always been part of the American soldier’s life. It is a continuation of a grand tradition going back to the Crusades and extending through the vivandieres of World War I to the B-Girls called …
Viet Survey This past week the D.C.E.W.V. conducted a survey in the segment of the 17th district in which we intend to concentrate our efforts on the Lafferty campaign this summer. In order to plan specific strategy we thought …
The Selective Service Classification Exams given in May and June have been the center of much peace activity in Michigan. The Detroit Committee to End the War in Vietnam has distributed leaflets at the six testing stations in Detroit and …