For the Record

Blasted, Rep. Richard Ichord, chairman of House Internal Security Committee (formerly HUAC) for charging that Sens. Muskie, McGovern, Tunney, Hart, Hartke and Gravel (Democrats all) were marching under suspect banners in the April 24 peace demonstrations. The march was mounted by National Peace Action Coalition (whose leadership is largely Trotskyite) and the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, which has refused to exclude anyone, including Communists. “Both these groups,” said Ichord, “are known to be operating under substantial Communist influence.” “A slanderous attack,” charged Sarah Trott, public relations director of ADA, “. . . the usual dirty tradition of the House Un-American Activities Committee.” . . . Meanwhile, both Guardian (Maoist-progressive) and World (CP) continued advertising buses and trains from New York to Washington for the march ($15 train, $10 bus, group buses, $400). . . . Commented columnists Evans and Novak: “He [Muskie] and other liberals have made possible what would have been unimaginable a few short years ago: Hundreds of thousands of Americans marching in their capital under Trotskyist command.” Chief marshal for the parade is Fred Halstead, Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyite) Presidential candidate in 1968.

Sen. William Saxbe (R., Ohio), whose trip to Saigon made less noise than Congressman Paul McCloskey’s, reports that he’s convinced the South Vietnamese inflicted very heavy casualties on the North Vietnamese in their Laotian invasion and what’s more that sensors they planted along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to guide electronic equipment are helping “U.S. gunships [helicopters] knock out trucks on the Trail at a terrific rate.” Saxbe is a GOP dove. . . . Latest intelligence estimates are that only one out of every four tons of supplies entering the Trail reaches the VC at the other end, in Cambodia and Southern Vietnam. . . . Dominic Cimino and four friends from Los Angeles arrived in Vientiane (the Laotian capital) last week and offered themselves in a man-to-man exchange for some of the POWs in Vietnam. The five range in age from 21 to seventy.

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Blasted, Rep. Richard Ichord, chairman of House Internal Security Committee (formerly HUAC) for charging that Sens. Muskie, McGovern, Tunney, Hart, Hartke and Gravel (Democrats all) were marching under suspect banners in the April 24 peace demonstrations. The march was mounted by National Peace Action Coalition (whose leadership is largely Trotskyite) and the People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice, which has refused to exclude anyone, including Communists. “Both these groups,” said Ichord, “are known to be operating under substantial Communist influence.” “A slanderous attack,” charged Sarah Trott, public relations director of ADA, “. . . the usual dirty tradition of the House Un-American Activities Committee.” . . . Meanwhile, both Guardian (Maoist-progressive) and World (CP) continued advertising buses and trains from New York to Washington for the march ($15 train, $10 bus, group buses, $400). . . . Commented columnists Evans and Novak: “He [Muskie] and other liberals have made possible what would have been unimaginable a few short years ago: Hundreds of thousands of Americans marching in their capital under Trotskyist command.” Chief marshal for the parade is Fred Halstead, Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyite) Presidential candidate in 1968.

Sen. William Saxbe (R., Ohio), whose trip to Saigon made less noise than Congressman Paul McCloskey’s, reports that he’s convinced the South Vietnamese inflicted very heavy casualties on the North Vietnamese in their Laotian invasion and what’s more that sensors they planted along the Ho Chi Minh Trail to guide electronic equipment are helping “U.S. gunships [helicopters] knock out trucks on the Trail at a terrific rate.” Saxbe is a GOP dove. . . . Latest intelligence estimates are that only one out of every four tons of supplies entering the Trail reaches the VC at the other end, in Cambodia and Southern Vietnam. . . . Dominic Cimino and four friends from Los Angeles arrived in Vientiane (the Laotian capital) last week and offered themselves in a man-to-man exchange for some of the POWs in Vietnam. The five range in age from 21 to seventy.