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Another factor which threatens the present power structure is the erosion of the strength of the Union Leader. Loeb and McQuaid committed excesses in the past year which offended even their staunchest supporters. In September they ran an editorial entitled "Is Kissinger a Kike?" which raised the question of an international Jewish conspiracy. Later in the month, they suggested that blacks be forced to emigrate to Africa, this in light of the highly-publicized Roxbury murders. Although the Union Leader will still play an important role in November, it may have seriously weakened its position...
...likely, certain sections of the student movement will want to link up with the rural insurgency, but what such an alliance would lead to is unclear. At any rate, the politics in Thailand are open to change for the first time in years, and hopes are rising that the staunchest ally of the United States in Asia may finally assert its independence...
Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, the project's staunchest opponent, learned last week that its request for a rehearing of its recently denied petition had been turned down by the Federal Power Commission. Appeals court action on that matter may begin soon...
MOST LIBERALS would probably condemn the McCarthy era as one of the low points in American "democracy." But for some reason, the same people forget, consciously or otherwise, that Richard Nixon was not only one of McCarthy's most ardent admirers, but one of his staunchest allies as well. Nixon, packaged as an upstanding defender of democracy on the basis of his unwavering condemnation of those who took the fifth before McCarthy's committee, received in 1952 the Republican vice presidential nomination as reward for his assiduous loyalty to the Wisconsin senator...
...professional, yet it shines with the vitality of those who truly enjoy their work. The large repertoire encompassing everything from Beach Boys and oldies to Cream and original numbers caters to all tastes primarily because their own enthusiasm is so infectious as to draw in all but the staunchest musical purist. "There were two girls who spent the whole second set the other night just laughing at us," says George Kincheloe '72, bass player and primary songwriter for the group. "When we asked them why, they just giggled some more and said it was because we looked so, well...