Editorial
The Continuing Crisis "Great Progress" was reported by Red China in the fight against snail fever (schistomsomiasis). On 29 March the peace movement suffered an unanticipated setback when Lt....
...The New York limes reported that former Czechoslovak leader, Alexander Dubcek, had taken employment as a gardener...
...Two hundred to three hundred thousand antiwar demonstrators rallied in Washington on 24 April, but the more energetically nonviolent demon strations scheduled for the following week fizzled into a few hundred arrests and the unexpected redecorating of Senator Barry Goldwater's office...
...How do POWs get to be POWs except for having us involved in an undeclared war...
...Edward then exclaimed, "We just can't leave them there" But the Senator replied cooly, "Why not...
...passed away as did the widely loved Herman, a twenty-three-year-old burro from Potter Park Zoo, Lansing, Michigan...
...Roy E. Blackwood, an original member of the famed "Blackwood Brothers Gosrbel Quartet...
...The distinguished American solon replied in a relaxed tone, "I don't know what happens to POWs...
...Athajanyakul tried to shoot himself, but it was aborted...
...More birds perished in the oil off San Francisco despite speeches and seminars by various college professors from the area...
...And in Bangkok, Suvit Athajanyakul, 24 shot and killed his girl friend Malika Eua-Areekul, 25, while she was recovering from the aftereffects of an earlier suicide pact between the two...
...The campuses remained relatively peaceful though The University Centers for Rational Alternatives' newsletter, Measure, viewed the quiescence ap prehensively...
...But prospects for population control brightened when the New York City Police Department announced a thirty per cent increase in the homicide rate during the first part of the year...
...South Africa announced that it had hanged eighty persons in the year ending 30 June 1970, and even brighter reports came in from Ceylon where thousands of beheaded carcasses were found-the result of a government program for youthful dissenters...
...Rick Edwards of Spring, Texas how his resolution to end American involvement in Indochina would relate to POWs (ours...
...Horse was the last Nez Perce Indian in captivity...
...recent fame lost his freedom during April...
...The press reported that former Czechoslovak leader, Alexander Dubcek, has taken employment at a lumber mill in Brataslava...
...Nixon declared that government installations would henceforth follow the abortion laws of the state in which they were located...
...Johnny Mynear, police chief of Paris, Kentucky, declared a three-hour war on pigeons, by summoning "thirty good shooters...
...Speculation did arise that Mr...
...Another gentleman of...
...the males of Liechtenstein decided by 1897 to 1817 against female suffrage...
...On 15 April the White House relaxed its embargo on trade with China...
...Yet while the peace movement continued to flex its wings, repression stalked the land...
...The award went instead to Whitney Young, deceased...
...But the grimmest note of all sounded in Lewiston, Idaho where Josiah Red Horse expired...
...Bob Hope were thwarted...
...The report from another dedicated progressive group-women's liberation-was not much gayer, for while Colorado's Governor John Love was signing a bill to allow women to work in coal mines (legislation whose time had certainly come...
...If acquitted he had intended to tour the nation, lecturing to Americans on the "brutalities of war...
...It was even reported that an F.B.I, agent had tapped a conversation with Congressman John Downy of Texas, now indicted for bribery conspiracy...
...Word also arrived from Moscow that a five-legged frog has been added to the collection of the Living Nature Museum of Tadjikistan...
...Diplomacy took an historic twist in April as the American Ping Pong team journeyed to China and on 14 April held a high-level conference with the urbane Premier of China, Senor Chou En-lai, in the Great Hall of the People...
...Nixon promised to review the Army's deliberations, and the President lost favor with the New York Times, various presidential contenders, and conscientious intellectuals...
...And the former Defense and Finance Minister of West Germany was robbed by two women of easy virtue in Manhattan where he said he was "on business...
...The North Flowing Wells School District in Tucson, Arizona fired Anne Stewart for telling her students that she was a witch, and Dr...
...No one can say for certain what the outcome of the battle between the agents of Mr...
...Hoover and the representatives of the people will be, but it seems likely that devotees to ecology will come to the F.B.I.'s support, for Senator Muskie has revealed the agents' interest in a speech he delivered to an Earth Day crowd last year...
...Brownlee of Yp-silanti, Michigan was found encrusted with tar and feathers but peaceful and optimistic...
...Nixon and of Mr...
...In Russia, however, the sun- bathers were backed into their huts, as Aeroflot an nounced the Russian supersonic transport would start flights in autumn-"in three hours it will whisk you from Moscow to Khabrovsk...
...The President lost more favor with the New York Times, the pundits found his performance unsatisfactory, and the Democrats asked for an opportunity to oppugn him on the networks...
...Table Tennis Association-a man whose political stock grew during the month...
...Sun-bathers breathed easier as the threat of skin cancer was removed by the Senate defeat of the SST...
...He was ninety- eight...
...So ends our report until next September-though it is doubtful we shall survive that long...
...Nevertheless, and most ominous of all, Robert L. Vitek of Shaker Heights, Ohio was sentenced by a muncipal judge to sit three hours in a pigpen for calling a policeman a pig...
...Graham B. Steenhove, president of the U.S...
...Agnew's views might not be exactly consonant with those of Mr...
...A fire bomb destroyed the Ad ministration Building at the University of California at Santa Cruz on 8 April, and by the end of the month five more branches of the Bank of America had been bombed, bringing the total number bombed recently to twenty-six...
...Nixon delivered a kind of modernized "firside chat" on Vietnam, promising to increase the American rate of withdrawal and demonstrating that American troop strength by 1 December 1971 would number only about 184,000 (down from 549,500 when he took office...
...The Los Angeles City Hall was bombed for the third time in eight months...
...The era of the little literary journal might well have close as Scanlan's Magazine folded...
...In the presence of a high school audience he was asked by Mr...
...The U. S. Census Bureau claimed that illiteracy had declined in the sixties with only one in every one hundred persons fourteen years and older unable to read and write...
...His outbursts continued throughout the month reaching an Orwellian high toward the end when he found the F.B.I, attempting, among other improbable endeavors, to control his thoughts...
...o On 7 April Mr...
...Finally, it was only due to the fast action of the idealistic young clergy on the New York City Council of Churches that plans to present the 1971 Family of Man Award to Mr...
...Though the domestic price of bamboo fell and there was some fluctuation in the bean sprout market, the general economy seemed to be improving with the total output up and the inflation rate down for the first part of the year...
...And a privy in Clayton, Missouri was declared by the Missouri Senate to be a state shrine...
...Among those critical was Senator Rupert V. Hartke from Indiana...
...He is to be gassed and temporarily resides in San Quentin about two cells down from Sirhan B. Sirhan, the Arab freedom fighter...
...On the theoretical side, Che Nik Abdul Rahman, 63, a practicing medicine man from Kula Lumpar, revealed his secret technique for having only seven children by thirty-two wives-abstain...
...After the shooting Mr...
...A diapsonal furor arose across the nation as hawks and doves, Republicans and Democrats, registered displeasure at the Army's court-martial...
...On 6 April the Rt...
...Hale Boggs assailed the man the New York Times considers "the capital's only un touchable," J. Edgar Hoover, calling him an emulator of Stalin and Hitler...
...Britain's Princess Anne was thrown from her horse while competing in and English horse show, and a West Ger man professor reported from Dusseldorf that his researches indicated plain mineral oil is the best cure for a hangover...
...The hopes of zero population growth advocates slackened this month when, under the pressure of his religious scruples, Mr...
...Charles Manson was sentenced to death...
...William Calley, a comparatively unknown dove, was convicted of the premeditated murder of no less than twenty-one civilians at My Lai...
...Conservationists again sounded the alarm as several species seemed near ex tinction, the most tragic being the beautiful Washita Ring-Tailed Wood pecker...
Vol. 4 • May 1971 • No. 6
