From an editorial in the ADA World urging the United States to extend sanctions to South Africa if necessary in order to bring down the Ian Smith regime in Rhodesia: “Rather than stop these sanc- tions as the right wing proposes, the task of the American people is to give full support to this action to make the dream of equality a reality in Rhodesia, South Africa and in all places where equal rights are denied.” Which places do not, as the ADA ap- parently sees it, include the Soviet Union, Commu- nist China, the East European satellites and North Vietnam. @
It was all very complicated. You see, this particu- lar group, the Ad Hoc Faculty Committee on Viet- nam, wrote all sorts of faculty members asking them for moola, endorsements and permission to list them as sponsors in an ad the Committee proposed running in the New York Times. You know how complicated operations of that sort can be. All those letters, and the return mail, and slicing them open and sorting these names here and those names there, and filling _ out bank deposit slips, and answering the crank calls, and satisfying the New York Times Advertising Ac- ceptability Committee. Well, with one thing or an- other, the ad finally appeared on Feb. 19, and it listed 1,271 supporters. And it looked very, very im- pressive and properly pedagogical. Researched, like
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