For the Record

■ Tension between flower children- hippie wing of SDS and the hard Marxist – Leninist revolutionaries much apparent at Austin, Tex. meeting of National Council a week back (when the U. of Tex. refused to house meeting, several churches offered SDS rooms). It showed in a) refusal to condemn the use of drugs because “they breed individualism and a lack of revolutionary discipline”—victory for hippies; b) vote to kick out Southern Students Organizing Committee, a white militant group, that was judged insufficiently “radical” and that had (shame!) “taken money from CIA”—victory for the hards; and c) vote to support China in the China-Soviet border war (the hippies didn’t care). Prognosis: A final split with the Progressive Labor and black militants winning out. . . . Adam Clayton Powell doing much speechifying these days: threatening to go to court if necessary to block any Administration move to cut off federal scholarship aid to rioting students. The current unrest, says Powell, “is the healthiest thing I’ve seen on the American campus.” . . . Not so, think members of the Wisconsin Assembly, who last week approved a bill to require the expulsion of any student convicted of disruptive activities from state universities and colleges. Now goes to Senate.

■ Who’s taking the lead on Republican side against ABM? Why, three freshmen senators, that’s who. Goodell of New York, Saxbe of Ohio, Cook of Kentucky. . . . Biggest mail of the 91st Congress has been against Army’s decision to scrub God from indoctrination lectures chaplains give inductees. Order has since been repealed by Sec. Laird. . . . Sens. Mansfield, Goldwater and James Allen (D., Ala.) have introduced legislation to create a division of obscenity control within the Justice Department and also to prohibit the mailing of obscene material to the under-eighteens. . . . Sen. McGovern, asked why he called Marshal Ky a dictator, replied in letter to inquisitive constituent: “Vice President Ky’s degree of de facto control over the policies of the Saigon government seems to me sufficient to make the term ‘dictator’ quite accurate.”

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■ Tension between flower children- hippie wing of SDS and the hard Marxist – Leninist revolutionaries much apparent at Austin, Tex. meeting of National Council a week back (when the U. of Tex. refused to house meeting, several churches offered SDS rooms). It showed in a) refusal to condemn the use of drugs because “they breed individualism and a lack of revolutionary discipline”—victory for hippies; b) vote to kick out Southern Students Organizing Committee, a white militant group, that was judged insufficiently “radical” and that had (shame!) “taken money from CIA”—victory for the hards; and c) vote to support China in the China-Soviet border war (the hippies didn’t care). Prognosis: A final split with the Progressive Labor and black militants winning out. . . . Adam Clayton Powell doing much speechifying these days: threatening to go to court if necessary to block any Administration move to cut off federal scholarship aid to rioting students. The current unrest, says Powell, “is the healthiest thing I’ve seen on the American campus.” . . . Not so, think members of the Wisconsin Assembly, who last week approved a bill to require the expulsion of any student convicted of disruptive activities from state universities and colleges. Now goes to Senate.

■ Who’s taking the lead on Republican side against ABM? Why, three freshmen senators, that’s who. Goodell of New York, Saxbe of Ohio, Cook of Kentucky. . . . Biggest mail of the 91st Congress has been against Army’s decision to scrub God from indoctrination lectures chaplains give inductees. Order has since been repealed by Sec. Laird. . . . Sens. Mansfield, Goldwater and James Allen (D., Ala.) have introduced legislation to create a division of obscenity control within the Justice Department and also to prohibit the mailing of obscene material to the under-eighteens. . . . Sen. McGovern, asked why he called Marshal Ky a dictator, replied in letter to inquisitive constituent: “Vice President Ky’s degree of de facto control over the policies of the Saigon government seems to me sufficient to make the term ‘dictator’ quite accurate.”