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Sidelash: Decision of Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders to get into Vietnam debate hurting civil rights drive. Recent Lou Harris poll shows that 40 per cent of those questioned said they were less sympathetic to rights questions since rights leaders went international. . . . Beat couples San Francisco now having children delivered by midwives. Rationale : Then they won’ t have to register them, which should make them draft- free twenty years hence. . . . Paul Booth, head of Students for a Democratic Society, says that since September, his group has sold 15,000 copies of a guide on how to get classified as a conscientious objector.

Washington Post’s Stanley Karnow estimates on basis of two-week trip through Indonesia that as many as half a million Communists, Communist sympathizers, and unpopular citizens may have been killed in bloodbath following abortive coup last Sept. Karnow says carnage continues on some of the remoter islands. . . . Prince Abdul Rahman of Malaysia has given cautious approval for an impartial Afro-Asian investigation of whether Sabah and Sarawak j oined Malaysian Federation by popular choice. If so, it could be excuse new Indonesian authorities need for abandoning costly and ineffective Crush-Malaysia campaign.

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Sidelash: Decision of Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders to get into Vietnam debate hurting civil rights drive. Recent Lou Harris poll shows that 40 per cent of those questioned said they were less sympathetic to rights questions since rights leaders went international. . . . Beat couples San Francisco now having children delivered by midwives. Rationale : Then they won’ t have to register them, which should make them draft- free twenty years hence. . . . Paul Booth, head of Students for a Democratic Society, says that since September, his group has sold 15,000 copies of a guide on how to get classified as a conscientious objector.

Washington Post’s Stanley Karnow estimates on basis of two-week trip through Indonesia that as many as half a million Communists, Communist sympathizers, and unpopular citizens may have been killed in bloodbath following abortive coup last Sept. Karnow says carnage continues on some of the remoter islands. . . . Prince Abdul Rahman of Malaysia has given cautious approval for an impartial Afro-Asian investigation of whether Sabah and Sarawak j oined Malaysian Federation by popular choice. If so, it could be excuse new Indonesian authorities need for abandoning costly and ineffective Crush-Malaysia campaign.