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...idea was conceived at a G.L.F. symposium last January in Berkeley. Reconnaissance parties of homosexuals disguised as fishermen and tourists were quickly dispatched to Alpine, and returned pronouncing it ripe for electoral conquest. The G.L.F. began stockpiling food, negotiating to buy land in Alpine, and signing up recruits for the exodus-nearly 500 have enlisted so far. In an article in the Los Angeles Free Press, G.L.F. Leader Don Jackson wrote glowingly of "a gay civil service, gay housing erected with funds furnished by the state and federal governments, and the world's first museum of gay arts, sciences...
Thinking left, he said goodbye to Buckley, and moved to the University of California at Berkeley. There he served as director of drama and books for the Pacifica Foundation's FM station KPFA, arranging interviews and producing plays. He got a B.A. in English and published his first novel, The Naked Martini, which Harrison Salisbury described in a review for the Times as possessing "a certain wry wit, but 255 pages seems a long, long journey with no better company than a young adman, his bottles and his babes...
...Instant communications, moreover, guarantee a sort of global cross-pollination of radicalism. Harvard Professor of Government Seymour Martin Lipset tells of the time he "asked a revolutionary in South America whether he kept in touch with developments in the U.S. He replied, 'We watch television. We saw everything at Berkeley...
Hartman, who is now a lecturer in the city planning department at the University of California at Berkeley, is currently appealing last year's decision by the GSD faculty not to renew his Harvard appointment. Hartman and many GSD students contend that his dismissal was politically motivated...
...Pacifica Foundation. They tackle controversial issues from all sides, broadcast disk jockeys who are knowledgeable as well as funny, and put on first-rate readings from literature. Their news, drawn from their own Washington bureau, has unusual freshness. All this went well at the original Pacifica station in Berkeley, Calif., and at the two newer ones in Los Angeles and Manhattan. But last March, the foundation got into Texas-and trouble...