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What do you know: Ronald B. Ramsey, a self-styled pacifist who makes radio tapes that are broadcast to U.S. troops in Vietnam over Radio Hanoi, surfaced in NYC last week—held a press conference. Press stories about Ramsey failed to mention that he first hit the headlines as a leading Berkeley Free Speech Movementer; that he worked for Ben Bella in Algiers late in ’64, was taken for a CIA agent, spent five months in an Algerian prison where he was badly beaten and tortured (see NR March 9, 1965), despite which he commented, upon his release: “I have nothing but the greatest admiration for Ben Bella’s government.” At press conference Ramsey complained (let’s hope it’s true) he was being harassed by the FBI. . . . One of most effective pro-Vietnam groups, National Student Committee for the Defense of Vietnam, has already gathered nearly half a million student signatures supporting LBJ’s policy; is planning new drive on campuses. . . . For detailed info on New Left, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee’s “The Anti-Vietnam Agitation and the Teach-In Movement, the Problem of Communist Infiltration and Exploitation” available (U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402 -70¢). . . . Illinois congressmen Sidney Yates, Roman Pucinski headed this year’s perennial Liberal drive to block appropriations for House Committee on Un-American Activities—got only 24 votes.

Estimates at moment of dead in anti-Communist blood purge in Indonesia range up to 300,000. Among the victims, nearly 25,000 Chinese. . . . President Marcos of Philippines now says he expects his country to establish diplomatic relations with Malaysia in near future in obvious slap at Sukarno. . . . British Defense Minister Denis Healey returned from Far East with assurances both Singapore, Malaysia wanted strong British presence retained in area (as protection against Indonesia), which means no immediate problems for Britain over retention of Singapore base.

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What do you know: Ronald B. Ramsey, a self-styled pacifist who makes radio tapes that are broadcast to U.S. troops in Vietnam over Radio Hanoi, surfaced in NYC last week—held a press conference. Press stories about Ramsey failed to mention that he first hit the headlines as a leading Berkeley Free Speech Movementer; that he worked for Ben Bella in Algiers late in ’64, was taken for a CIA agent, spent five months in an Algerian prison where he was badly beaten and tortured (see NR March 9, 1965), despite which he commented, upon his release: “I have nothing but the greatest admiration for Ben Bella’s government.” At press conference Ramsey complained (let’s hope it’s true) he was being harassed by the FBI. . . . One of most effective pro-Vietnam groups, National Student Committee for the Defense of Vietnam, has already gathered nearly half a million student signatures supporting LBJ’s policy; is planning new drive on campuses. . . . For detailed info on New Left, Senate Internal Security Subcommittee’s “The Anti-Vietnam Agitation and the Teach-In Movement, the Problem of Communist Infiltration and Exploitation” available (U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 20402 -70¢). . . . Illinois congressmen Sidney Yates, Roman Pucinski headed this year’s perennial Liberal drive to block appropriations for House Committee on Un-American Activities—got only 24 votes.

Estimates at moment of dead in anti-Communist blood purge in Indonesia range up to 300,000. Among the victims, nearly 25,000 Chinese. . . . President Marcos of Philippines now says he expects his country to establish diplomatic relations with Malaysia in near future in obvious slap at Sukarno. . . . British Defense Minister Denis Healey returned from Far East with assurances both Singapore, Malaysia wanted strong British presence retained in area (as protection against Indonesia), which means no immediate problems for Britain over retention of Singapore base.