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The Moratorium coordinator, Sam Brown, age 26, is a former McCarthyite. Brown was born in Iowa and at one time was a Harvard divinity student. The idea for next Wednesday's protest was born in Brown's mind last spring, and in mid-June he, along with Dave Hawk of the National Student Association, opened a head- quarters office in Washington ( 1029 Vermont Avenue, N. W. ). Currently the D. C. office receives 1,500 pieces of mail daily and about $1,O00 in donations. In June the Washington operation con- sisted of a small office, and now they occupy an entire office build- ing floor and employ (mostly volunteer) 31 full-time headquarters workers. The organization also boasts 7,500 field workers nation- ally. The VMC claims to be an effort to mafimize public pressure to end the war by encouraging a broad cross section of Americans to work against it. The method is a recurring moratorium (one day in October, two in Nove&ber, three Itn December, etc. ) on "business as usual1' to allow concerned citizens to spend the day participatirlg in anti-war programs in their local communities. The 15th of October effort will be directed toward building, enlarging and lengthening subsequent moratoria. The focus is not only on ending the war by my means (except escalation), but on other war related issues such as the draft, militarism, taxes, inflation, in- terest rates, elc. "New Politics11 calls for broad based participa- tion including mass rallies, a media campaign, and door to door canvassing and petitioning. . b .. The VMC belteves that ending the war is the most important task facing the nation. Although few presently openly defend the war, the war goes on. The administration withdrawal policy is deemed too slow. The committee points out that death and destruc- tion in Vietnam are unabated and billions of dollars are being spent on the war while urgent domestic problems remain unattended. The discredited policies of the past which have brought about this Amer- ican tragedy have not been changed. This "student call for a Viet- nam Moratorium" (in abbreviated form) has been endorsed by over 500 college student government presidents and campus newspaper editors. . t.' * 2 . . ... -*. .... ._ , . . . ... . . . ,.: .W'! * . . .,e.. :. : .-. . . - - * e .. . .-