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Whatever tensions might have existed between gay and straight women earlier in the week now seem to be relaxing. Certainly much of the women's determination to keep the Center stems from the fact that it is the first time gay and bi-sexual women have had a place to gather...
Peace has been a Stone preoccupation for years. The latest Bi-Weekly notes archly that little-noticed congressional hearings reveal that $1.3 billion in Food for Peace funds has been used for military purposes in the past 17 years. That sets Stone off against military assistance: "It encourages the effort to confront political and economic problems with force. It exacerbates economic distress by imposing the burden of large armies, and intensifies rebellion by repression." He scorns military-assistance teams trained specially to get involved in the life of the country where they are stationed: "This is a distant echo...
...Star and Compass. Deafness (subsequently cured by surgery) made it difficult for him to get much out of press conferences, so he turned to reading transcripts, looking for important items other reporters missed. Borrowing from Galsworthy, Stone calls them "significant trifles." Basic to the Bi-Weekly are the overlooked or understressed statements of public figures, the molehills that Stone reveals as mountains. Currently the Bi-Weekly is warning against voluntary repatriation plans for Viet Nam prisoners, noting that the "voluntary" qualifier produced a dispute in Korea that held up a settlement "by 18 months and 140,000 casualties...
...friendship by criticizing Israel's "callous attitude" toward Arab refugees and calling for reconciliation because "Israel's future depends on it." Overall, he feels "more loved than unloved." Loved or not, he is increasingly read. Circulation has climbed to a healthy and profitable 74,000, and the Bi-Weekly is included in a digest of 25 magazines that is regularly prepared for the President...
...Stone's Weekly until 1968, when the fortnightly format was forced on Stone after a heart attack and an operation that left him with distorted vision in one eye. He still writes every word of the Bi-Weekly, aided only by a woman who "helps me read the Record" and a young man who "does legwork and looks up things." His wife serves as business manager. "I love this little fleabite paper," Stone says. "I'd like to stick to 65. In December 1972, it'll be 20 years...