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Bruce L. Chapman '62 said yesterday that most of the activity of the National Review as well as that of the Young Americans for Freedom, the John Birch Society and other extreme rightist elements, is aimed at defeating Republicans rather than Democrats...
Chapman noted current examples of the conservatives' relish for attacking progressive Republican candidates rather than Democratic incumbents: the National Review's opposition to Rep. John Lindsey (R.N.Y.); the YAF's drive to unseat Stanley Isaacs, the only Republican on the 27-member New York City Council; and the John Birch Society's efforts to defeat California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel in his bid for re-election...
Squawks from Scratchy. But progress was slow and the sessions dreary in the Palais' Birch-paneled Room VIII. From the start, the U.S. and Britain demanded a careful system of inspection and control to prevent any cheating after a test ban went into effect. With monotonous regularity, Moscow's delegate, craggy, high-domed Semyon ("Scratchy") Tsarapkin said nyet, demanding an immediate test ban and leaving the inspection to be discussed later. The talks got hideously complicated with endless debate on technical details. At one stage, the West, discovering to its dismay that underground tests could be concealed from...
...much defending bespeaks a lot of attacking, and the N.C.C. has indeed become a prime target of the stepped-up offensive of such ultraconservative fringers as the John Birch Society and the Circuit Riders, who accuse the National Council of 1) being a kind of superchurch run by a clerical coterie of fuzzy-minded pinkos and Red infiltrators, 2) speaking for its members without consulting them, and 3) making pronouncements in favor of admitting Red China to the U.N., opposing the Bricker Amendment, and abolishing the House Un-American Activities Committee...
Relative Status. Tory Nigel Birch concurred on Britain's shrunken international power, carried the argument a step further by depicting the new potency of Europe if Britain added its considerable weight to the Common Market. The result "would be a population larger than Russia or America," he said, "a community occupying the fairest part of the earth, comprising the most intelligent, hardworking people in the world-and far better able to help the Commonwealth and supply capital and know-how to underdeveloped countries." On the other hand, if Britain stayed out, Birch warned, it would not long retain what...