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SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT On& ag& the dying coas of the U. S. antiwar movement have been stirred by the resumption of widespread bombing in North Vietnam beginning on/or about 18 December 1972. The nation's two largest antiww groups, the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC), a tightly dKciplined group run in consid- erable part by Trotskyist cadremen of the Socialist Workers Party; and the PGople's Coalition for Peace and Justice (FCPJ), a looser coalition of free-wheeling radicals and unaligned groups, announced on 5 January 73 that they were linking forces to mount a mass Inaugural Day Demonstration in Wmhington, D. C. to demand a total withdrawal of all American forces from Indochina. Riding the crest of what they believe to be a new wave of anti-Nixon sentiment, N P A C D C P J organizers expect -'itbusandst' tc turnout. A joint NPAC/PCPJ communique calls for "an inau- guration of conscience, not confrontation. I' t NPAC and PCPJ, jointly and separately, have brought large antiwar crowds to Washington in the past (175, OOO to 200, OOO @ April 1071), but the possibility of a mass mobilization for the 1973 Inaugural seems remote for the. following reasons: (1) the con- tinued impasse in the Paris peace talks appears to have been resolved, (2) the President halted all bombing of the North Viet- namese on 15 January 1973, (3) the coalitions have not had suf-# ficient time-to properly organize their constituents, (4) the organi- zations do not have the money to finance a massive demonstration, and (5) after nine years of protesting U. S. involvement in Vietnam the issue has lost some of its appeal. J I ' . . .-. .