TROOPS IN VIETNAM
City’s Views Tested
(N.I. Preu Atm.—Copyright) NEW YORK, Nov. 20. Voters in z Cambridge, Massachusetts, registered just over a three-to-two margin against Immediate withdrawal of United States troops from Vietnam, a ballot count showed yesterday.
The vote was in answer to a referendum question in the November 7 municipal election. Complete but unofficial returns showed 17,742 people against withdrawal and 11,349, or 39 per eent, in favour.
In the three wards, which Include Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the vote was 4108 in favour of withdrawal and 3124 against Mrs Carolyn Carr, cochairman of the Cambridge Neighbourhood Committee on Vietnam, which sponsored the referendum, said the results were “a pretty good indicator of the way most people feel toward the Johnson Administration’s Vietnam policy. “The way the vote cut across class lines is really encouraging."
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31542, 2 December 1967, Page 21
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