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Governor Jerry Brown, running hard for the Presidency, has installed Daniel Ellsberg as his foreign policy advisor. Ellsberg was Brown’s fifth choice, and got the job after turndowns by Abbie Hoffman, Kim Philby, Wilfred Burchett, and W. C. Fields.

The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO has issued a statement attacking the “transfer of critical technology to the Soviet Union,” mentioning particularly computers, ball bearings, seismic equipment, oil drill bits, and other products that have applications in nuclear warheads, armor-piercing rockets, and submarine detection devices. An honorable and patriotic statement, scarcely audible in the brouhaha kicked up by those who want to boycott the firms that sell Kleenex to South Africa.

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Governor Jerry Brown, running hard for the Presidency, has installed Daniel Ellsberg as his foreign policy advisor. Ellsberg was Brown’s fifth choice, and got the job after turndowns by Abbie Hoffman, Kim Philby, Wilfred Burchett, and W. C. Fields.

The Executive Council of the AFL-CIO has issued a statement attacking the “transfer of critical technology to the Soviet Union,” mentioning particularly computers, ball bearings, seismic equipment, oil drill bits, and other products that have applications in nuclear warheads, armor-piercing rockets, and submarine detection devices. An honorable and patriotic statement, scarcely audible in the brouhaha kicked up by those who want to boycott the firms that sell Kleenex to South Africa.