Group Circulates Anti-War Petition At Law School

Six first-year Law School students have launched a crash drive to place an open letter opposing the Vietnam war in the Washington Post.

Addressed to President Johnson, the letter calls for "a sustained search for negotiations through an immediate cessation of the bombing of North Vietnam."

The letter asserts that present U.S. policy "will reduce rather than strengthen the force of American ideas abroad" and "will involve continued escalation which can only undermine important domestic programs by further diverting badly needed funds."

One hundred and seventy-five Law students have signed the letter, and made contributions totalling $850 of the $1300 required to purchase a half-page of advertising space in the Post.

The group hopes to collect the remaining $450 by tonight, and then run the advertisement on either Friday or the following Monday.

George T. Frampton Jr. IL, a spokesman for the six, said the group wanted to print the letter immediately to capitalize on disillusionment with U.S. policy resulting from recent bombings of Hanoi and Haiphong.

"We feel that people are upset now and that people who have some part in decisions in Washington are also upset," Frampton said yesterday, "and that we should register our dissent quickly."