Word: yaf
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Easily the most important student conservative organization is the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF), which claims a membership of 20,000 to 30,000 spread across some 200 campuses. YAF's financial support, based largely on contributions from a small number of conseravtive adults (rather than membership dues), is far and away the most impresive of any student political organization; and, YAF policy appears, not coincidentally, to be tightly managed in its national headquarters. From its founding in 1960, YAF grew to a peak in grassroot support during the Goldwater-Johnson campaign of 1964. Since then, YAF has probably been...
David Franke, editor of the right-wing YAF publication New Guard, said that he like other conservatives, disliked the present draft system because it limits individual freedom...
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According to Jerrold N. Oppenheim '66, first vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe chapter, his group refused to support the rally "because we don't agree completely with the Administration on Vietnam." And he said, the fact that YAF is one of the rally's sponsors "certainly made us think more than twice" about endorsing...
Dale Higer, a third-year law student and president of the Law School Young Dems, said it would be "a folly to support a rally on Vietnam with YAF." His group has drafted resolutions urging the Administration to act on its policy of seeking negotiations and economic build-up in Vietnam, supporting the last March on Washington, and the use of the United Nations in negotiations...