Word: yaf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Right-wingers in California recently announced support for Tim Leary over Ronald Reagan for governor. Leading libertarian journals have called for armed resistance to taxation and the draft. A New York leader of the 1969 libertarian revolt in YAF now condemns the U. S. as a monster worse than Soviet Russia or Nazi Germany. Every major libertarian organization recognizes at least some aspects of U. S. foreign policy as imperialist and many favor and end to U. S. attempts to quash wars of liberation in the Third World...
Other right-wing libertarians took a similar path. The head of the University of North Carolina's Conservative Club resigned to become an active New Leftist; an entire YAF chapter at the University of Kansas voted to become an SDS chapter; the head of YAF at Brooklyn College became a left-wing anarchist; and an Ayn Randist who had spied on SDS in New Jersey for the House Committee on Un-American Activities became a member...
...Hess's appearance-nearly a quarter of the delegates attended his discussion-the second day of the convention was also uniformly conservative in tone. The Libertarian Caucus quietly made preparations for the third and final day, when votes would be taken for the new board of directors and YAF platform. Among the platform proposals drawn up by the Libertarian Caucus were...
...point during the demonstration someone severed the cord of YAF chairman Laszlo Pasztor's bullhorn as he attempted to read a YAF statement denouncing the takeover and demanding forcible police action to remove the women...
...Gary Golding, a spokesman for YAF, said later in the day that YAF had taken pictures of the incident and will file charges of assault with the Cambridge police against persons they hope to identify as being responsible for cutting the wire and punching George Bredig and John Garvey, two other members of YAF...