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...NATIONAL Youth Alliance (NYA) has headquarters in Washington, D. C., but its public emergence occurred at UCLA. Last July 16 NYA kicked off the first of its proposed "Right Power Programs" with a gathering of 500-odd people in that school's Meyerhoff Park. Spokesmen John Hayes, campus leader, and Louis Byers, national organizer of NYA joined David McGinty, head of UCLA's White Student League (WSL) in making the following demands of the university...
...rhetoric that foments clash continues to grow, especially from NYA. The "Right Power Program" is built on four points: "(1) To oppose the use of dangerous drugs and narcotics and to run those who push them off the campus.... (2) To neutralize and overcome Black Power.... (3) To restore law and order to the campuses and to America by stamping out anarchist groups and movements, such as SDS.... (4) To bring peace to America by resisting any attempt to involve us in foreign war...." Behind this action program lurks a set of-at the least-controversial ideas...
Reading the NYA newspaper Attack!. one finds in the group's mentality an awesome witch hunt; the devil is red and black, and recognizably utopian. The witches are trose who teach that "paradise is a place where hominoids with full bellies live in a perpetual rut," devoid of "honor, loyalty, race and Western man's will to conquer...
Behind conquest-the proof of superiority and inferiority-is the idea of inherent inequality. "Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free," is the motto of Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it. The teaching of eugenics, NYA authors feel, will help students learn of white supremacy; and that recognition, their reasoning goes, will give whites the will power to assert their superiority...
...reopened. Journalists, long barred from the south, are now welcome. "Go anywhere you like," an official urged, "and stay as long as you wish. We want you to learn the truth." According to Brigadier General Mohamed Abdul Gadir, head of the Southern Command since the May coup, the Anya Nya are short of arms and ammunition...