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Thomas M. Stroke, editor of the Santa Barbara (California) News Press, has received the University's Lauterbach Journalism Award of the Nieman Foundation for his intensive disclosure of the activities of the John Birch Society in Santa Barbara...
...that part of his speech which dealt with "the membership of the Black Muslims, and in particular, their 'secret military office,'" the article implies that the Muslims might have been behind the bomb threat. The article emphasizes the importance of the Muslims in this affair by excluding the John Birch Society in the headline to the article...
Buried Ammo. So far, the Minutemen have attracted mostly middle-class people with an average age of about 30. Some saw duty as Army Rangers or in the O.S.S.; a handful are on active military service now. Although some Minutemen belong to the way-right John Birch Society, the two organizations do not see eye to eye. Leader DePugh talked with Birch Founder Robert Welch, now recalls: "I did not find him impressive. He didn't think much of our program either. He doesn't even think the Russians have atomic weapons...
...point Comet described the role of Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish peoplehood, the central point of the world Jewish community. And Zionism is the active and personal identification of the individual with Israel. Calling the American Council for Judaism (the only anti-Israel American Jewish group) the "Birch Society of American Jewry," he said that in America today most Jews feel mildly pro-Israel, although their involvement is not active or personal. This pro-Israel philosophy is not Zionism, the director of the youth department of the AZC stated...
...moderation by slipping from time to time into the academic pitter-patter of Harvard's own Russian Research Center. But let there be no mistake; in its heart of hearts Conquest Without War is a polemicist's handbook, motivated by the kind of simple-minded hatred that gave John Birch his distinctive charm and abandon...