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Wright's credentials include the authorship of the definitive handbook on the federal court system. He was brought into the White House last year, before Watergate erupted, to craft constitutionally sound legislation that would reverse the wave of court decisions ordering busing to achieve racial balance in public schools. The antibusing bill Wright designed was stymied by the U.S. Senate, but Nixon was so impressed by his legal skills that Wright has become the constitutional specialist on the new White House team of lawyers parrying the legal thrusts of Watergate. It was Wright who wrote the White House refusal...
...Regarding your article "Sex and Mao at Princeton" [April 30], I was sorry to note that you seem to have misread the introduction to the birth control handbook as myopically as Mr. Buckley. The booklet does denounce birth control, but not birth control as we know it, through contraception. The booklet denounces birth control through such methods as India's "voluntary" (i.e., paid) sterilization by surgery, a practice that was used as a "preventive measure" against hereditary mental defectiveness in some states in this country at the outset of this century...
While many students ignored the introduction as juvenile, others were angered by it. Some mailed copies of the booklet to all 40 university trustees and to the National Review, whose publisher is a Princeton alumnus. The magazine denounced the Handbook as a "scandal," and Review Editor William F. Buckley Jr., a Yaleman, suggested in his syndicated newspaper column that the "Princeton Maoists begin their revolution by cleaning up sexual immorality in Princeton...
...which prompted Princeton officials to find out how Birth Control Handbook was chosen. It turned out that it originally had been put out four years ago by a group of students at McGill University in Montreal. Since then, some 4,000,000 copies have been circulated in Canada, England, Australia and the U.S. Among the recipients were undergraduates on at least a dozen American campuses, including Tufts and Boston University, where the pamphlet caused no controversy-perhaps because it was distributed by student groups and not by administrators...
After considering several pamphlets, SECH concluded that the Handbook was not only the cheapest available (4½? per copy compared with $1 for others) but that its medical content was the best. "It's a very complete, succinct and medically sound book," says SECH's director, Dr. Louis A. Pyle. The committee decided that controversy over the pamphlet's introduction could be avoided by disavowing, in a covering flyer, the "wornout S.D.S. rhetoric of the late 1960s." But before distributing the Handbook in March-seven months after approving it-SECH forgot to staple in the planned disclaimer...