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...Young Americans for Freedom were filmed for use on NBC's David Brinkley's Journal this Wednesday. According to Howard J. Phillips '62, Mass. college chairman of the Young Republicans and a national director of YAF, Brinkley's program will document the conservative revival at this summer's NSA convention and elsewhere...
Phillips agreed that students must speak, but then presented his well-known argument that the N.S.A. is unrepresentative, and, in fact, "is out of touch with the mainstream of student opinion." He noted that most students in NSA affiliated schools have no idea of what NSA is anyway, and that the representatives chosen to go to the National Congress are usually non-representative...
Aside from the big question of NSA representation, commercials, Williams' attempts to determine how far right was right, and station breaks, various other items were debated, such as the cost of Phillips' hotel room at the N.S.A. convention and the nature of Fulton Lewis III's convention badge. Leed complained that debates with his old schoolmate "nearly always" degenerated into "such trivia," but seemed to find enough material to keep sparring well into the night, past CRIMSON bed time and that of most students...
Their best showing was on the question of whether or not to condemn the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a traditional scapegoat of the NSA. A conservative resolution that advocated reform rather than abolition of the committee failed by only 236 to 216, although the eventually successful resolution to abolish the committee passed with a more clear-cut margin...
...conservative position on the pro- HUAC resolution had been heavily compromised in an effort to gain votes, and on other issues the Phillips contingent did not fare so well. Their most resounding setback was in the NSA executive committee's unanimous refusal to censure Vice President Timothy Jenkins for saying, "I think we now have unmasked in the final reality what exactly exists behind the facade of the conservative image, because we now see the base and debased colonial, repressive, slave- owning kind of mentality that can exist in a hard, fascist- type regime...