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Voices of Moderation; Sen. Thomas Kuchel (R., Cal.), as he pulled out of gubernatorial primary against front-running Ronald Reagan, blasted right wing of GOP in these terms: ”[It is a] fanatical, neo-fascist, political cult, overcome by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear, recklessly determined to control our Party or to destroy it.” … John Bailey, Democratic National Chairman, urging Democrats to use discredited Group Research Inc. for source material against rightists (some rightists GRI has dossiers on: Gen. Eisenhower, Gen, Omar Bradley, Astronaut John Glenn) . GRI, which works closely with AFL-CIO COPE, reportedly in trouble financially; Bailey bid to Democrats to use its services could be move to get it back into black. . . . Gov. Mark Hatfield of Ore., who might run for Sen. Maurine Neuberger’s seat next year, becoming a fighting Dove, to wit: the Johnson Administration’s policy in Vietnam contains “horrendous possibilities of miscalculation and errors of judgment which could trigger WW III or at least a vast Asian land war.”

National Guardian reports 2,000 members of Cuban assault brigade that took part in Bay of Pigs have volunteered to fight in Vietnam. In a letter to LBJ, they wrote: “We wish to represent the people of Cuba on the battlefields of Vietnam. The fighting in Vietnam is part of our fight.” … A fascinating Per Spiegel news item holds that Russian weapons shipped across China to North Vietnam are now at long last moving smoothly, the Soviets having agreed to pay the transport charges in Swiss francs. . . . Atrocity count: Since 1964 Vietcong guerrillas have killed, wounded or kidnaped 20,300 Vietnamese civilians, including 2,300 village headmen, teachers and officials. … Retreating Vietcong forces have taken to beheading their Vietnamese prisoners when pressed too closely by government forces.

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Voices of Moderation; Sen. Thomas Kuchel (R., Cal.), as he pulled out of gubernatorial primary against front-running Ronald Reagan, blasted right wing of GOP in these terms: ”[It is a] fanatical, neo-fascist, political cult, overcome by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear, recklessly determined to control our Party or to destroy it.” … John Bailey, Democratic National Chairman, urging Democrats to use discredited Group Research Inc. for source material against rightists (some rightists GRI has dossiers on: Gen. Eisenhower, Gen, Omar Bradley, Astronaut John Glenn) . GRI, which works closely with AFL-CIO COPE, reportedly in trouble financially; Bailey bid to Democrats to use its services could be move to get it back into black. . . . Gov. Mark Hatfield of Ore., who might run for Sen. Maurine Neuberger’s seat next year, becoming a fighting Dove, to wit: the Johnson Administration’s policy in Vietnam contains “horrendous possibilities of miscalculation and errors of judgment which could trigger WW III or at least a vast Asian land war.”

National Guardian reports 2,000 members of Cuban assault brigade that took part in Bay of Pigs have volunteered to fight in Vietnam. In a letter to LBJ, they wrote: “We wish to represent the people of Cuba on the battlefields of Vietnam. The fighting in Vietnam is part of our fight.” … A fascinating Per Spiegel news item holds that Russian weapons shipped across China to North Vietnam are now at long last moving smoothly, the Soviets having agreed to pay the transport charges in Swiss francs. . . . Atrocity count: Since 1964 Vietcong guerrillas have killed, wounded or kidnaped 20,300 Vietnamese civilians, including 2,300 village headmen, teachers and officials. … Retreating Vietcong forces have taken to beheading their Vietnamese prisoners when pressed too closely by government forces.