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...little nervous and a little rumpled in his blue blazer, striped tie, and chinos. Since Wednesday, when the tenth anniversary celebration for Young Americans for Freedom began, almost all of the speakers at the convention had commented on the amazing growth and unexpected success of this conservative youth group. YAF had started out ten years before with a weekend meeting of 90 young conservatives at Buckley's "family home" in Sharon, Connecticut; now 460 of the 55,000 national members stood on the lawn of that same Buckley estate, students from all over the country who had come for three...
...celebration was almost over, everyone was almost ready to start back to Hartford and from there back home, but the best had been saved for last, and the best was Bill Buckley, a midwife at the birth of YAF, the unflappably intellectual defender of the right, the man always ready to put down by any means possible the emotional liberals, the fascistic rads, the Communist sympathizers, and the collectivists of all kinds. Four hundred sixty Young Americans for Freedom and a good number of older Young American supporters stood clapping for Buckley, anticipating his speech, making mental notes to take...
Last spring Laszlo Pasztor '73, head of H-R YAF, threatened to sue Harvard for breach of contract if classes were officially cancelled...
Laszlo Pasztor '73, President of YAF and one of the organizers of the rally, said that a telegram would emphasize the message more than a petition...
Speakers from YAF denounced the use of violence and stated that the University should not allow radical organ...