The Week

■ All is not quite lost. The Arkansas Young Republican League (which the Arkansas Republican Party has to disavow every five or ten minutes), meeting in solemn conclave, passed resolutions supporting the Cooper- Church Amendment on American troops in Cambodia, demanding that President Nixon dump Spiro Agnew in 1972, condemning the “Southern strategy” and the nominations of Haynsworth and Carswell, calling for repeal of censorship and laws against homosexual acts, and demanding immediate legalization of gambling, abortion and marijuana. The meeting defeated resolutions to legalize prostitution and to praise Senator J. William Fulbright.

■ Very, very quietly, Senator Eugene McCarthy has introduced the Adequate Income Act of 1970, which would give a family of four a guaranteed income of $5,500—without work requirements. A McCarthy aide says the Senator has no idea how much the program would cost or where the money would come from; Labor Department officials estimate it would cost the taxpayers $7 billion a year and would put “nearly half the country” on welfare. It’s interesting that Senator McCarthy’s bill embodies the program of the super-militant National Welfare Rights Organization (motto: “Fifty-five hundred or fight!”).

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■ All is not quite lost. The Arkansas Young Republican League (which the Arkansas Republican Party has to disavow every five or ten minutes), meeting in solemn conclave, passed resolutions supporting the Cooper- Church Amendment on American troops in Cambodia, demanding that President Nixon dump Spiro Agnew in 1972, condemning the “Southern strategy” and the nominations of Haynsworth and Carswell, calling for repeal of censorship and laws against homosexual acts, and demanding immediate legalization of gambling, abortion and marijuana. The meeting defeated resolutions to legalize prostitution and to praise Senator J. William Fulbright.

■ Very, very quietly, Senator Eugene McCarthy has introduced the Adequate Income Act of 1970, which would give a family of four a guaranteed income of $5,500—without work requirements. A McCarthy aide says the Senator has no idea how much the program would cost or where the money would come from; Labor Department officials estimate it would cost the taxpayers $7 billion a year and would put “nearly half the country” on welfare. It’s interesting that Senator McCarthy’s bill embodies the program of the super-militant National Welfare Rights Organization (motto: “Fifty-five hundred or fight!”).