For the Record

■ Peace-Left groups trying to patch over their differences on what comes next Moratorium-wise—but without much success. Sam Brown, national Moratorium head, and his associates afraid that as John Gage (Cambridge) puts it: “The Washington March [scheduled for Nov. 13, 14, 15] may attract the Chicago crazies.” . . . Vietnam Moratorium people want to organize on local community level and not join the New “Mobe” (Mobilization Against the War in Vietnam) group which caters to more extremist elements. Says one Moratorium officer in New York: “We’ll give them Mobe’s number and tell them when the buses leave.” Period. Says another at New Haven GHQ: “The marchers may lose us the middle class.” . . . Everyone, but everyone on the Left is down on SDS-Weatherman as result of latest caper in Chicago. Where, asks a Daily World editorial (Oct. 21), was SDS “at the very moment of the greatest mass turnout in the history of the American people for peace and against imperialism?” Answer: “Looking on from the sidelines.” . . . Guardian columnist Stanley Aronowitz held a wake (Oct. 18): “SDS is dead. Long live the student movement!” . . . Fellow Guardian columnist Phil Hutchins thinks the whole Left is moribund, not only SDS. SNCC, he says, has done nothing, but nothing since the glorious days of Stokely and Rap (makes one nostalgic doesn’t it: Burn, Baby, Burn! Kill Honkey! Kill!). The Panthers are on the defensive, “almost literally wiped out.” “Chicano” Reies Tijerina was sent to jail a week ago— and Mobe? Well, says Hutchins, “Mobe seems to be doing the same old thing all over again.”

■ For the record: only two Republican senators to sign congressional letter endorsing Vietnam Moratorium were Mark Hatfield (Ore.) and Charles Goodell (N.Y.). . . . Senators Richard Schweiker (Pa.) and Charles Percy (Ill.) did their best to get the President to talk the situation over with Moratorium leaders but, when it came to the clutch, they didn’t sign.

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■ Peace-Left groups trying to patch over their differences on what comes next Moratorium-wise—but without much success. Sam Brown, national Moratorium head, and his associates afraid that as John Gage (Cambridge) puts it: “The Washington March [scheduled for Nov. 13, 14, 15] may attract the Chicago crazies.” . . . Vietnam Moratorium people want to organize on local community level and not join the New “Mobe” (Mobilization Against the War in Vietnam) group which caters to more extremist elements. Says one Moratorium officer in New York: “We’ll give them Mobe’s number and tell them when the buses leave.” Period. Says another at New Haven GHQ: “The marchers may lose us the middle class.” . . . Everyone, but everyone on the Left is down on SDS-Weatherman as result of latest caper in Chicago. Where, asks a Daily World editorial (Oct. 21), was SDS “at the very moment of the greatest mass turnout in the history of the American people for peace and against imperialism?” Answer: “Looking on from the sidelines.” . . . Guardian columnist Stanley Aronowitz held a wake (Oct. 18): “SDS is dead. Long live the student movement!” . . . Fellow Guardian columnist Phil Hutchins thinks the whole Left is moribund, not only SDS. SNCC, he says, has done nothing, but nothing since the glorious days of Stokely and Rap (makes one nostalgic doesn’t it: Burn, Baby, Burn! Kill Honkey! Kill!). The Panthers are on the defensive, “almost literally wiped out.” “Chicano” Reies Tijerina was sent to jail a week ago— and Mobe? Well, says Hutchins, “Mobe seems to be doing the same old thing all over again.”

■ For the record: only two Republican senators to sign congressional letter endorsing Vietnam Moratorium were Mark Hatfield (Ore.) and Charles Goodell (N.Y.). . . . Senators Richard Schweiker (Pa.) and Charles Percy (Ill.) did their best to get the President to talk the situation over with Moratorium leaders but, when it came to the clutch, they didn’t sign.