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American Friends Service Committee — Part 26
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4 THOUSANDS are marching for peace
this weekend, from one end of the nation
to the other.
‘San Francisco predicts the big-
gest peace walk and rally in its
history. Chicago, with friendly
competition between the SANE
committee and the-- American
Friends_Service., Committee. ~ will
_ have two Waixs combiaiug into
“ene With a nuge tally.
In Maryland, the Witnesses for
Peace, which includes some
twenty peace groups, will hold
vigils at Fort Detrick, at the
Atomic Energy Commission in-
Stallation in Germantewn and at
the Pentagon in Washington.
Walks and mass meetings will
supplement the vigils. A peace
rally will be held at Wasaingion
Monument.
One week of walks by the
New Jersey SANE committees
started March 25 at McGuire Air
Force Base with 425 people
mostly college and high school
students in line. Arter reaching
Trentcn, Provincetown, New
Brunswick, Plainfield. Newark,
and Teaneck, the peace walkers
this Saturday are crossing the
George Washington Bridge being
joined by New Yorkers at 181
street and Fort Washington ave-
-nue at 9 am. and by additional
? walkers at 11 a.m. at Columbia
- University, 220th street and
Broadway, at 1 p.m. at Columbus
Circle, and at 2 pan. at Bryant
. Park behind the N. Y. Public
Library, arriving at: the UN at
3 p.m. for a rally at the UN _
- Plaza.
The New England Committee
_ for Non-Violent Action is on a
* 340-mile peace marci wm protest
“sagainst the commissioning of a
Polari ts Missile-hring submarine
- at Kittery, Maine, picking. up
walkers on tne route througk..
- Ag.
Island. and Connecticut. They -
expect to reach N. Y, this Satur-
day and waik to 120th street and
Fifth avenue.
New Yorkers of the Fellowsnip
of Reconciliation, War Resistors,
One Hundred Days for Peace,
and other peace sroups will join
the New Enslanders on this
walk not only on Saturday but
mainly on Enster Sunduy morn-
iny, when they will start their
walk at 9:40 a.m. at 120th street
and Fitth avenue. They expect
to walk_down Fifth avenue ar-
Tiving at 86th street and Sth
avenue at noon, then continuing
on Fifth avenue to 72nd street,
with their messave of peace, and
then east to Park avenue, and
continue on Park avenue with
petitions for peace to the UN
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The Evening Star
New York Herald Tribune
New York Journal-Americ
New York Mirror
New York Daily News
New York Post
The New York Fimes —_
The Worker PT
The New Leader
The Wall Street Joumal —
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