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“Light Up for Freedom” is a major Young Americans for Freedom counterpunch to Vietniks. On Jan. 7, the South Vietnamese ambassador will light a “torch of freedom” at the Statue of Liberty. It will be carried to Independence Hall in Philadelphia for ceremonies in front of the Liberty Bell. Finale will be evening meeting at Washington’s Constitution Hall, Sens. Dodd and Mundt, Admiral Arleigh Burke presiding. . . Student groups in India, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Korea, Australia, Thailand, and Vietnam will hold rallies in support of U.S. stand in Vietnam the same week. . . . Cornell has refused to allow Young Socialist League to set up booth in student building to solicit funds for Vietcong. … On West Coast, wives of three U-Cal professors (Berkeleynatch) were recent hostesses at a fund-raising party for the Vietcong. . . . Who should turn up at a recent rally in Berkeley to protest the war but Conor Cruise O’Brien, former UN gauleiter in Katanga, present superprofessor at NYU. . . . Caught in the middle: Robert McNamara. On one hand, some hards denounce him for what they fear is too-hasty scrapping of B-52 bombers, on the other, he’s blasted by Worker as warmonger and “one of the most sinister men in America.”

For first time in its history, N.Y. SANE has endorsed political candidate. He’s Robert Schwartz, of Village Reform Democrats, who wants Democratic nomination for John Lindsay’s congressional seat. Schwartz’s entire pitch is peace in Vietnam. . . . Orin Lehman, another would-be congressman, has now joined the peaceniks (last July he signed a resolution approving LBJ’s Vietnam policy)…. Left-wing militants—both civil-righters and Vietniks—have called meeting in Chicago Jan. 15 to set up political organization. Aim: to play part in Illinois elections next year. . . . It’s now certain Charles Percy will be Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois next year. Not so certain whether his old economics teacher, Sen. Paul Douglas, who is 73, will decide to go for a fourth term. . . . Another race to watch; Jan. 22 special congressional election in N.C. first district where a Republican, John East, insists on making it a two- party affair.

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“Light Up for Freedom” is a major Young Americans for Freedom counterpunch to Vietniks. On Jan. 7, the South Vietnamese ambassador will light a “torch of freedom” at the Statue of Liberty. It will be carried to Independence Hall in Philadelphia for ceremonies in front of the Liberty Bell. Finale will be evening meeting at Washington’s Constitution Hall, Sens. Dodd and Mundt, Admiral Arleigh Burke presiding. . . Student groups in India, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Korea, Australia, Thailand, and Vietnam will hold rallies in support of U.S. stand in Vietnam the same week. . . . Cornell has refused to allow Young Socialist League to set up booth in student building to solicit funds for Vietcong. … On West Coast, wives of three U-Cal professors (Berkeleynatch) were recent hostesses at a fund-raising party for the Vietcong. . . . Who should turn up at a recent rally in Berkeley to protest the war but Conor Cruise O’Brien, former UN gauleiter in Katanga, present superprofessor at NYU. . . . Caught in the middle: Robert McNamara. On one hand, some hards denounce him for what they fear is too-hasty scrapping of B-52 bombers, on the other, he’s blasted by Worker as warmonger and “one of the most sinister men in America.”

For first time in its history, N.Y. SANE has endorsed political candidate. He’s Robert Schwartz, of Village Reform Democrats, who wants Democratic nomination for John Lindsay’s congressional seat. Schwartz’s entire pitch is peace in Vietnam. . . . Orin Lehman, another would-be congressman, has now joined the peaceniks (last July he signed a resolution approving LBJ’s Vietnam policy)…. Left-wing militants—both civil-righters and Vietniks—have called meeting in Chicago Jan. 15 to set up political organization. Aim: to play part in Illinois elections next year. . . . It’s now certain Charles Percy will be Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois next year. Not so certain whether his old economics teacher, Sen. Paul Douglas, who is 73, will decide to go for a fourth term. . . . Another race to watch; Jan. 22 special congressional election in N.C. first district where a Republican, John East, insists on making it a two- party affair.