ANTIWAR TACTICS REPORTED IN EUROPE
In a special dispatch from Paris, published in the New York Times of October 29, John L. Hess reports that he was told by a spokesman for groups in Europe that have been helping American soldiers to desert that a new policy has been adopted. "They are now urging servicemen to stay in the Army to spread propaganda against the war in Vietnam.
"The spokesman, who calls himself Mr. Cook but does not pretend that that is his real name," continues Hess, "said in a telephone interview that the new tactic had been imported from the United States by American servicemen, who called it 'RITA' and 'AITA,' for 'Resist Inside the Army' and ‘Act Inside the Army.'"
According to the same source, the GIs have brought antiwar literature from the United States. "Sympathetic groups in Europe have reproduced some for distribution. They put leaflets on windshields of servicemen's cars, Mr. Cook said, hand them out at gates of bases or even enter quarters to distribute them. Girls pass them along at service clubs, he said."
Cook told the Times correspondent that a success had been achieved Octo-~ber 21 by members of the German Socialist Student Union in Frankfurt, coinciding with worldwide demonstrations against the war in Vietnan.
"According to Mr. Cook, students
penetrated servicemen's quarters the night before and distributed leaflets inviting the Americans to meet them at the post exchange in the afternoon to discuss the war. The PX was thereupon ringed with