Pleas for Peace, Then and Now

"All we are saying is give peace a chance," protesters sang as they marched against the Vietnam War. Today, the throngs filling New York City blocks and clogging downtown Washington sing some of the same songs. Though the present war is being fought in the Middle East instead of in Southeast Asia, the chants, slogans, and even the fashions of the demonstrators resemble those of the Vietnam era. Is this antiwar movement an echo of its 1960s predecessor? The Chronicle posed that question to

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