Whither the Peace Movement?

With the war over, what will happen to the peace movement? At a recent Berkeley, Calif., rally cheering the North Vietnamese victory, speakers were shouted down in favor of a rock-'n'-roll band. At Kent State University, organizers had difficulty attracting even a handful of students to a commemoration of the students killed half a decade ago.

Other ideologues of the movement, however, are going ahead to try to change the society. Tom Hayden, one of the Chicago Seven, tentatively plans to challenge California's Democratic Senator John Tunney in next year's primary--while his wife Jane Fonda returns to a full movie schedule. David Harris, who served 20 months in a penitentiary for refusing induction into the Army, may run for the seat now held by California's liberal Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey. David Dellinger, another member of the Chicago Seven, has plans for an "alternate" newsmagazine tentatively titled Seven Days. "The movement is fragmented these days," Dellinger says, "but its parts are still working." Maybe, but like any other one-cause force, the peace movement will probably fade away unless it finds another issue--and soon.

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