The Continuing Crisis
The Continuing Crisis Taking advantage of a relatively tranquil summer, the politicians gathered in Miami Beach on two separate occasions to hold what they call presidential nominating conventions....
...Early in August they arrested four priests, a member of the congregation and a nude dancer at the recently established Church of the Hi-Life...
...In Washington, D.C...
...Jane Fonda cannot even go on tour in Vietnam without suffering harassment...
...Nevertheless as the election draws near the repression increases...
...Wake up Amerika...
...But there were other historic milestones passed this summer...
...who made the most stunning gouge at history by becoming the only presidential candidate ever to have asked his running mate to resign...
...The atmosphere of the Democratic convention evoked visions of the frowzy street bazaars of what were once indelicately called "bad neighborhoods...
...Naturally television news covered the conventions as though they were national catastrophes by sending the usual mob of nitwits and floor walkers, whose ceaseless torrent of inanities awed viewers and entertained many small children...
...Bremer was refused his retrial...
...Dunlevy (already under indictment for assault and battery and threatening murder) and clarified a great deal of confusion concerning American civil liberties averring: "everyone's a scold - everyone who's willing to speak their mind about things...
...The results of the second convention were more palpable, eventuating in the renomination of Mr...
...party, kicked off his campaign in spite of an almost total news blackout...
...On August 4, Governor George Wallace asked the American Independent party to visit him not with their nomination...
...etc...
...The Democrats held the first from July 10 to July 13...
...Perrin Mitchell, to break into a chorus of "My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of bigotry...
...In Murillo De Rio Leya, Spain, Pepe, a Spanish-trained snail, set a world record of three feet eleven inches to beat Grand Prix competition from eight countries...
...Citing the law's obvious incongruence with the Fourteenth Amendment, Judge McGann freed a Mrs...
...At the second convention the/ party of the elephant insisted that the protesters confine their antics to areas outside the convention hall...
...Of course better choices for the Democratic convention might have been Felicia Bernstein and Masters and Johnson with Upton Sinclair explaining the mysteries of the Republican jamboree...
...This time only four thousand partook...
...Hanky-panky has been sniffed by the Government Accounting Office...
...The Republicans held the second from August 21 to August 23...
...Now we are told that the Los Angeles police are cracking down on the free exercise of religion...
...Timothy Leary is being deported from Swizterland under peculiar circumstances...
...While General Idi Amin was throwing sixty thousand Asians out of Uganda, assorted "republics" and "democracies" of black Africa were promising to boycott the Olympics if racist Rhodesia competed...
...Nixon has not cancelled the fall elections as the underground press predicted some while ago, but Mr...
...During July casualties in Northern Ireland topped the five hundred mark when William Henry Creighton passed away as he walked toward his home...
...It had been infallible for decades...
...On August 26 the Games began without Rhodesia, and in Bank ok, Thiland some 30,000 sports turned out to watch Mr...
...His last requests had been to see his parents and be visited by a woman of delights...
...Agnew and in the arrest of some 1200 protesters, geniuses, poets and heralds of the New Age...
...While the Republicans assumed a motif of country club chic, celebrating the marvels of George Babbitt, who - contrary to Walter Cronkite's testimony - was not present...
...Arthur Bremer's next sixty-three years have been planned for him...
...the House passed a rigorous (continued on page 27) CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 2) anti-busing bill inspiring a curious black congressman, Mr...
...At the first convention the party whose mascot is a jackass allowed the protesters to frolic within the convention hall proper...
...He turned to Senator Edward Kennedy and five other possible victims before R. Sargent Shriver, an unemployed landlord, agreed to take the job...
...Nixon vetoed a lavish congressional appropriation for HEW and in Freehold, New Jersey, Superior Court Judge P.J...
...Jesus de Santiago of Pago, Mexico was pecked to death while feeding a herd of fighting cocks...
...The impresarios of television news also imported scholarly commentators like Theodore White, William Buckley and John Galbraith for their English speaking audiences...
...McGann recalled an ancient New Jersey law which outlawed women from behaving as "a common scold...
...And Billy Joe Clegg, presidential candidate of the Loyal U.S.A...
...The third annual day of women's protests by the women liberationists (August 26) attracted fewer women than ever - though there were possibly more men than in the past...
...Rahem Mardechai be executed for rape...
...The results of the first convention were ambiguous and became more so...
...Fearing his running mate's past behavior might imperil the ticket's popularity, the great man sought a running mate with a more respectable past...
...Nixon and Mr...
...As yet Mr...
...Despite the Nixon Administration's auspicious claims for the economy, the Blevins Popcorn Company has discontinued its Presidential Popcorn Poll due to rising costs...
...In spite of all the show boating it was Senator George McGovern, Ph.D...
...Twenty thousand women had marched in New York in 1970...
...His wife claimed he had been drinking inordinately...
...They turned instead to California Congressman John Schmitz...
...And the police raided the most prosperous massage parlor in all of Times Square on August 26...
Vol. 6 • October 1972 • No. 1
