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IC0 00 18 13 5 . . I demonstrations prompted anti-war advocates to label Mr. Nixon unresponsive to the national will (a highly debatable assumption in view of the many millions of Americans who continue to believe U. S. Vietnam policy realistic under the circumstances and see the remaining U. S. demand that the Sovth Vietnamese be allowed to choose their governmelt by free elections, regardless of the out- come, as most reasonable). The President's well-intentioned state- ment, designed undoubtedly to minimize demonstration impact and at the same time to ''lay it on the he'' for Hanoi, seems to have bacldired and may swell the protest ranks. The President's troop withdrawal and pronouncements to Vietnamize the war are considered by anti-war spokesmen, tokenism and too slow. At the present rate of troop withdrawal, anti-war supporters calculate continued Amer- ican hvolvement until 1978. The yithdrawal figure pressed by the VMC is 2,500 men a day, not, naturally, to'be replaced by additional troops. * - .. . i ~n opposition to the v ~ i C on several campuses is a momen- tarily feeble Young Americans for Freedom. The YAF (like SDS, presently suffering a serious philosophical split in the YAF case between traditionalists and libertarians); founded bx William Buckley in 1960, is dedicated to traditional (and libertarian) con- servativism and has announced its intention to seek punishing court orders in the event college classes are suspended on the 15th. Such an approach, it can be safely predicted, will have absolutely no affect on planned vim, teach-ins, and rallies. As for college campus participation, about one hundred col- leges and universities planning activities of a variety of natures have been mentioned in local newspapers in the past two weeks. The VMC claims, so f q to have pledges of participation from 700 cul- 'leges and expects a total of over l, 000 before the 15th. Naturdy the big schools are amply represented. Prominent in the list are such schools as the University of Michigan, University of Maryland, Harvard, Columbia, University of California at Berkeley (also seriously infected with other problems), Rutgers, Princeton, and Wisconsin, just to name a few. More surprising is the pledge of particiwtion from some small, often religiously affiliated, exclu- sive women's colleges, such as Mary Baldwin (Virginia), Mercer University (Georgia), Nazareth College (Rochester,. New York), . I 'b .\; - -