Voices of Moderation: New Republic’s TRB came up with this exclusive insight on Ronald Reagan July 1. “[Reagan] is anti-labor, anti-Negro, anti-intellectual, anti-planning, anti-20th Century. “… Negro leaders in California reportedly furious that Gov. Pat Brown signed into law new legislation making “incitement to riot” a misdemeanor. • • • AFL-CIO has singled out for defeat this year eight Republican senators who helped Everett Dirksen kill repeal of 14(b). They are: Gordon Allott, Carl Curtis, Len Jordan, Jack Miller, Karl Mundt, James Pearson, Strom Thurmond and John Tower. . . . Republicans wonder whether appointment of Liberal Don Kendall as administrative assistant to Ray Bliss means Bliss intends to abandon his middle-of-the-road stance. … Goldwater certain GOP conservatives will control the 1968 convention because “the vociferous . . . pestiferous little minority of Liberals we have in the Republican Party aren’t going anywhere. “
Unpublicized: March by Negro high school student Willie Hunter from South Carolina border to Washington to demonstrate his support for Pres. Johnson’s Vietnam stand. . . . Sen. Douglas not budging from Hard stance on Vietnam despite growing pressures from Liberal associates; possibility he may be mortally wounded _in senatorial battle against Doveish Chuck Percy. . . .Peace candidacy of Communist Herbert Aptheker for Congress backed in large National Guardian ad by pacifist A. J. Muste, who identifies himself as “one who ordinarily keeps aloof from electoral campaigns.” . . . Ronald Ramsay, the U.S. psychologist – defector who recently broadcast to U.S. troops in Vietnam over Radio Hanoi as “Granny Goose” last week phoned the AP in Vienna, from Bulgarian Black Sea resort, to report he feared he would be arrested. (Ramsay has already spent some time in an Algerian jail.) . . . Robert Williams, ace announcer of Fidel Castro’s Radio Free Dixie (which calls for black revolution in the U.S.) now in Peking, presumably to stoke anti-Americanism there.




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