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very successful teach=in on the Vietnam War was held at Tulane University on February 5th. Sponsored by the Tulane Liberals © Club, it was attended by more than a thousand for most of the night. It went on until 5.00a.m, Amongst the defenders of U.S. intervention were John Piercey of the U.S. State Department and Edward S. Butler III, executive vice-president of the information council of America, By 1,00a,m, the government defenders had granted that the U.S. position in Vietnam is illegal and immoral and relied only on the "national interest" argument. (The State Department man had left by 9,00p.m) A parade and demonstration against the war was plamned for February 12th. WASHINGTON,D.C. A group of veterans protesting against the war on February 5th in front of the White House handed over their discharge papers, campaign ribbons and medals to be returned to President Johnson as an act of disassociation from the government's Vietnam policies, They were supported by a picket line of several hundred people, Some forty veterans one by one dropped their papers into a box, Some of them ma’ ing brief statements as they did so. White House guards refused to take the papers, Another attempt is to be made to hand them to President Johnson. NEW YORK. Some 1,000 people picketed in front of the United States Mission to the U.N. on February 5th to protest against the bombing of North Vietnam. The demonstration was sponsored by the Fifth Avenue Vietnam Peace Parade Committee, DETROIT On February Ist some 250 marched in downtown Detroit in a hastily-called demonstration to oppose the resumption of bombing of north Vietnam, despite cold weather and snow. This demonstration was called by the Detroit Committee to end the war in Vietnam, and was a success (by Detroit standards) partly because the committee had set up telephone chains in advancs to deal with such a contingency. BOSTON On February Ist, the day after the resumption of the bombing, 100 people marched against the escalation of the war. Signs carried read "Bring the troops home now' and "Stop the Bombing",