200 Hear Speakers Denounce War In Week's Third Rally on Vietnam

The Ad Hoc Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged its third rally in less than a week yesterday, this one on the steps of Memorial Church.

Speaking through a bullhorn, a series of nine speakers warned and harangued a crowd of over 200 cold and wet spectators for over an hour that "the only thing the United States can do to end the war in Vietnam is withdraw, totally and completely. It is not a question of what is strategically right, but rather what is morally right."

Midway through the demonstrations, the sexton of Memorial Church approached the speaker and informed him that they were "conducting services inside, and the Church steps are no place for a loud gathering."

As the sexton disappeared through the front door, a student motioned to the memorial inscription carved into the front of the Church and yelled, "What kind of a church is this? It is dedicated to dead men who fought in a war. We don't want to be on those steps." The rally withdrew, totally and completely, to the base of the steps.

Later another speaker pointed out, to the delight of the crowd, that "this morning's New York Times headline was what may be one of the greatest parodies in history: '160 U.S. and Vietnamese Planes Attack Bases in North; Washington Seeks to Limit War."

As the rally was drawing to a close after competing with heckling cries of "communists" and "Democrats," two unsympathetic freshmen appeared with a sign reading: "Win the War in Vietnam."