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- 'COO018 135 1 -_ 10 October 1969 SITUATION INFORMATION RBPORT (SPECIAL) 15 October 1969 Activities Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania has suggested that the "quiet people'' who support the administration's war policy show their support on the ides of October by burning their auto head- lights. Because of the massive backing, however, of the objectives of the Vie& Moratorium Committee (VMC), it is highly doubtful that many headlights will be -k. seen burnin$.vnm after dark. Next Wednesday's nati&al peace demonstration is shaping up to be the most widely supported in American history. Although campus initiated, the October 15 demonstration has gathered aid and active assistance in many quarters of Amsrican life. Promi- nent businessmen have pledged they will picket Wall Street; John Cardinal Dearden of Detroit'has declared the 15th as a day of prayer and fasting in the archdiocese; well over 1,000 Rabbis, nationwide, will be in the streets; scientists at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey as well as doctors at the National Instituta of Health will observe the Moratorium. High-ranking Government officials (Senators, Representatives, gbvernors, and mayors) .of both parties will speak publicly and otherwise lend their prestige to *e anti-war protest. Teachers' micns from coast to coast (including Washington, D. C. , and Montgomery County) have voted to support the day of demonstra- tion. The VMC has estimated that over one million Americans throughout the country w U actively advance the moratorium cause. It is believed from press coverage natimally, however, indicating a clear snowbdlling effect, and general broad-based sympathy among the moderate forces in our societg that the one million estimate is a most considerable underestimation. The actual number w i l l prob- ably be closer to three million participants and many millions more inactively endorsing what the VMC calls the "new politics. '' '8 I . . . . 1 1