For the Record

What’s big on the Left? If Socialist Workers Party’s Militant’s your bag, it’s women’s lib, which includes repeal of all abortion laws, no forced sterilization (of welfare clients), support of Gay and Lesbian Liberation Fronts. Militant no longer uses Miss or Mrs., or even first names when writing about women. It’s Abzug, Fonda, Chisholm, Huggins, Millett, Friedan . . . Women’s lib congressional favorite Abzug, incidentally, has all-female staff on the Hill; deeply shocked congressional sensibilities when she told a House doorkeeper recently, when he asked her please to remove her fedora, that he could go dirty word himself. … In Daily World (Communist Party) it’s Angela Davis all the way. March 16 issue, twelve pages, had ten full-length stories on her, including front-page banner . . . We learn that a new Marxist-Leninist bookstore, the Angela Davis bookstore, has opened in New Haven, Conn., that Free Angela Davis sweatshirts are available from an outfit in Tacoma, Washington (subhead “Stop Reagan’s Lynching”), that Sammy Davis appeared on NET Black Journal show March 29 wearing a Free Angela Davis button, that a group of Brandeis alumni are petitioning alumni groups to nominate her (Brandeis ‘65) as head of the alumni association . . . Maoist Guardian still concentrating in the main on the Indochina war (Wilfred Burchett reporting) and the peace movement in the States.

ACLU has blasted Teddy Kennedy for saying in congressional testimony that an all-volunteer army would be a “poor men’s army.” Not a scrap of evidence to support that contention, says ACLU executive director Aryeh Neier . . . Town Council of Edgartown, Mass., has had to appropriate $1,000 for repairs to the bridge at Chappa-quid dick. Souvenir ghouls at work . . . In South Carolina, conservative Republican Dr. James Edwards has won nomination for Mendel Rivers’ House seat with help of F. Clifton White, who managed James Buckley’s campaign in New York last fall against Richard Ottinger and incumbent Sen. Charles Goodell . . . It’s been a bad year for Goodell: he’s just lost another three-way race, this one for a trusteeship at Cornell to Mrs. Desdemona Jacobs, an aide at an Ithaca junior high school.

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What’s big on the Left? If Socialist Workers Party’s Militant’s your bag, it’s women’s lib, which includes repeal of all abortion laws, no forced sterilization (of welfare clients), support of Gay and Lesbian Liberation Fronts. Militant no longer uses Miss or Mrs., or even first names when writing about women. It’s Abzug, Fonda, Chisholm, Huggins, Millett, Friedan . . . Women’s lib congressional favorite Abzug, incidentally, has all-female staff on the Hill; deeply shocked congressional sensibilities when she told a House doorkeeper recently, when he asked her please to remove her fedora, that he could go dirty word himself. … In Daily World (Communist Party) it’s Angela Davis all the way. March 16 issue, twelve pages, had ten full-length stories on her, including front-page banner . . . We learn that a new Marxist-Leninist bookstore, the Angela Davis bookstore, has opened in New Haven, Conn., that Free Angela Davis sweatshirts are available from an outfit in Tacoma, Washington (subhead “Stop Reagan’s Lynching”), that Sammy Davis appeared on NET Black Journal show March 29 wearing a Free Angela Davis button, that a group of Brandeis alumni are petitioning alumni groups to nominate her (Brandeis ‘65) as head of the alumni association . . . Maoist Guardian still concentrating in the main on the Indochina war (Wilfred Burchett reporting) and the peace movement in the States.

ACLU has blasted Teddy Kennedy for saying in congressional testimony that an all-volunteer army would be a “poor men’s army.” Not a scrap of evidence to support that contention, says ACLU executive director Aryeh Neier . . . Town Council of Edgartown, Mass., has had to appropriate $1,000 for repairs to the bridge at Chappa-quid dick. Souvenir ghouls at work . . . In South Carolina, conservative Republican Dr. James Edwards has won nomination for Mendel Rivers’ House seat with help of F. Clifton White, who managed James Buckley’s campaign in New York last fall against Richard Ottinger and incumbent Sen. Charles Goodell . . . It’s been a bad year for Goodell: he’s just lost another three-way race, this one for a trusteeship at Cornell to Mrs. Desdemona Jacobs, an aide at an Ithaca junior high school.