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ARIZONA. First Congressional District -Pat Fullinwider (D) v. Incumbent John Rhodes (R): Minority Leader Rhodes narrowly defeated Pat in 1974, is now running scared. CALIFORNIA. Twelfth District-David Harris (D) v. Incumbent Paul McCloskey (R): an antiwar protester and Singer Joan Baez's ex faces McCloskey, a four-term liberal, in a close one. FLORIDA. Fifth District-JoAnn Saunders (D) v. Incumbent Richard Kelly (R): Saunders offers money back if she wins and contributors dislike her stands. Her money should be safe. ILLINOIS. Tenth District-Incumbent Abner Mikva (D) v. Samuel Young (R): in the third match-up between...
...blame us, we tried hard. No criteria for inclusion are offered. Why Calamity Jane and not Annie Oakley? Why Lucille Ball but not Bette Davis? Why Helena Rubinstein and not Diana Vreeland? And for that matter, why Joan Baez at all? And why is the most written about and talked about women of the present day--Jackie Onassis--not even mentioned once? Perhaps to make room for Shirley Temple and Fannie Farmer. This nit-picking, where-is-my-favorite reaction is the natural result of Life's muddied intentions. These are not the most famous American women (who the hell...
...went. So what if we were only 12? Sly was going to be there, man. Hendrix (RIP). And Country Joe and the Fish, man. The Fish, did you hear me? Dylan couldn't come only because he was recuperating from his (and the world's) accident, so he sent Baez! The next best thing!! So in that crazy, turbulent sea of mud and peace and love, all the goals of the French Revolution were finally realized, and the sixties could then die in peace (and love). Or so everybody thought...Because--you guessed it again!!--ha, ha, the sixties...
...work in the early '60s, along with that of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Joan Baez, and others, placed Ochs squarely in the tradition of Pete Seeger, of Woody Guthrie before Seeger, and of Joe Hill before Woody. For Ochs, the struggle against oppression was everything, and he mocked those unwilling to carry out all the implications of that struggle. He reserved particular scorn for the liberals...
Both the right and the left seem to be embracing random terror and Mafia-style vendetta. Recently, the mother, father and sister of a youth named Federico Guillermo Baez were abducted from their home in the seaside resort of Mar del Plata, then later found dead. Their hands were cut off to delay identification. The next day the police announced that young Baez was the leader of a guerrilla squad that had killed an army colonel. The clear implication: right-wing forces had decided to avenge the officer's death by wiping out Baez's family...