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War Protests Remembered 36 Years Later
NIH-NIMH Vietnam Moratorium Committee Reunites
for Posterity |
| By Carla Garnett |
The U.S. is at war in a small nation thousands
of miles away. Not everyone agrees we need to be in the fight.
Protests have been launched. In other news, a new chief justice
of the U.S. was sworn in and a major hurricane devastated the Gulf
Coast region.
No, this is not a rehash of last year's headlines. In this story,
Warren Burger heads the U.S. Supreme Court. Hurricane Camille — a
category 5 storm — hit Mississippi in late August. Gasoline costs
about 32 cents a gallon. And the disputed war is in southeast Asia.
The year is 1969. That fall, a small group of NIH and NIMH (the
agencies were separate then) employees organized to protest U.S.
involvement in the Vietnam War. They were researchers, physicians,
administrators and support staff. They were vested government workers
as well as new interns and freshmen feds. Some spouses later joined.
They held their first formal meeting on Sept. 23 in Bldg. 2, then
a lab facility for National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic
Diseases staff. The fledgling antiwar organization, one of several
founded at federal agencies, was named the "Viet Nam moratorium
committee at NIH-NIMH," the VNMC.
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| Breast Cancer Survivors Take Control in Dragon
Boats |
| By Claudia Wair |
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"Family Learn to Paddle Day" |
Imagine a warm day on the banks of the Anacostia
River. Several brightly colored boats race past, each 20-woman
crew dipping the oars in perfect synchronization. It may not be
until after the race, when these women laugh and shout and congratulate
each other, that you notice the many pink ribbons decorating team
shirts and some of the boats.
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