Word: yaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...group sprang from a dormant Massachusetts YAF last April, when eight of the most active and extreme members of YAF decided that its conservatism was no longer tolerable to their philosophy...
...YAF is basically conservative," NRC Mass. co-chairman Frank Peseckis, a freshman at MIT, explains. "NRC is different--its members are libertarians. Conservatives usually have a lot of religious neuroses--ideas about man being God's servant rather than an end in himself--and think that the 'rights of society' take precedence over individual rights in many cases. Libertarians don't--we think individual rights are sovereign. We are the New Right...
...Teach-In" was announced on the weekend of March 19 by an ad hoc group, formed for the occasion, called Students for a Just Peace-an amalgam of conservative students including virtually all of Harvard's fledgling chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) and the right-wing elements of the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Republican Club. Their announced list of speakers forced the "Teach-in" into the forefront of the community's consciousness, for it included Bui Diem, South Vietnam's Ambassador to the United States, Dolf Droge, a White House advisor on Indochina, and Anand Sandering Ham, Royal Thai...
...hope to provide something constructive instead of what happened last time," Hengen said. "We are strongly convinced of the right of YAF to stage such an event but we cannot allow them to portray the Harvard community to the outside world as in any way con-doning the policies of these speakers," he said...
Meanwhile, Students for a Just Peace continued preparations for their rally. Lazlo Pasztor '73, president of YAF, refused to release any details. "We're still awaiting word from some of our speakers but things are starting to solidify," said Pasztor...