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...ambiguity is heightened by the fact that two of Orwell's closest friends during the war, Arthur Koestler and Franz Borkenau, became enthusiastic spokesmen for official anticommunism. Both were men whose works he respected and whose judgment and friendship he valued; both became ranking members of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA-funded organization which was set up to ensure the loyalty of non-communist intellectuals all over the world to the interests of the emerging American empire. Koestler and Borkenau joined such right-wing figures as James Burnham and Sidney Hook in a war in which ideas were...
Crimson readers should know that on the vital issue of the Middle East one candidate-Shirley Chisholm-is offering a choice rather than an echo. Whereas other candidates sound like Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesmen. Chisholm has courageously recognized that there can be no Arab-Israeli peace without justice for the Palestinians...
Shortages account for the immediate jump in farm goods. Agriculture Secretary, Earl Butz and other farm spokesmen, argue that America's increasing appetite for meat and other farm products has kicked up prices. On the other hand, many economists contend that the Government's elaborate price-support policies have contributed substantially to high food costs. Thus, the controversy over food prices, which will be a prime campaign issue, is also likely to bring into question the whole program of subsidies to agriculture...
Administration spokesmen insisted that the President was "keeping his options open." In fact, the options were limited. Nixon ruled out any pause in troop withdrawals; he will announce the next phase sometime before May 1, when the U.S. troop level in Viet Nam dips below 69,000. The President also directed that the 6,000 U.S. combat troops currently stationed in Viet Nam should not be shifted from their defensive positions around U.S. installations at Danang and in the Saigon area to aid ARVN's fight against the North Vietnamese. To emphasize that it was "their...
...spokesmen said last night that the demonstrations against the Secretary of the Air Force were intended to dramatize demands that the U.S. end the serial warfare and withdraw from Southeast Asia...