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"If students want voluntarily to refuse to go
to classes," the YAF head continues, "we
respect their right to do so, but we refuse to
stand idly by if others are denied their right to
attend classes."

The YAF statement includes as its second
"issue" an attack on the University and National
Moratorium Committees for "pressuring"
President Nixon into withdrawing U.S. troops,
"thereby incurring an increased slaughter of
South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians and an-ultimate
victory for the fanatic totalitarians of
North Vietnam."

The statement continues, "a conscientious
reading of the 'Moratorium' and 'Mobilization'
literature and the 'New Left' press (or simply, a
little common sense) demonstrates this.

"It must also be realized," Mr. Kwapisz
urges, "that the Moratorium organizers here
(and likewise elsewhere) have discussed the
possibilities of disrupting traffic on Main Street
on October 15, and have stated that the Left
has 'outgrown the non-violence of the Quaker
types-early in the Movement.' It is also important
to know that the shutdowns, strikes, etc.,
are planned to increase in duration by one day
for each successive month."