NOTES IN THE NEWS
Notes in the News The Wine of Victory In the springtime of the thirty-first year since passage of the National Labor Relations Act, farm workers for the first time have made what appears to be a...
...How long the children will continue to carry on their parents' traditions is open to question...
...In the crisis of World War II . . . our government firmly resisted any proposals to employ chemical or biological warfare against our enemies...
...Rural incomes continue to be extremely mal-distributed...
...An East Michigan University experiment disclosed that even college-educated housewives are so baffled by the huge variety of sizes and deceptive labeling of groceries and household goods that when thirty-three of these women were turned loose in a supermarket they were misled by packaging to spend an average of $10 for purchases that should have cost them only $8.90...
...Coming out of a background sharply different from Dubinsky's—rural Kansas and Colorado—"Jim" Patton, the son of an itinerant farmer who was considered a liberal in his day, began working for the Colorado Farmers Union in 1940 when the NFU had 78,000 farm family members in a loose collection of state units...
...But the Stanford analysts said their national poll indicates "that opposition to the President is coming from the other side: Of those who disapprove [our emphasis] of the way President Johnson is handling the Vietnam situation, a two-to-one majority approves of having the Vietcong take part in a coalition government and of having free elections even if the Vietcong win...
...Today it is a national body with 225,000 members...
...They are so far removed from the mainstream of American life as to provide a severe test of that tradition of freedom of conscience which guided the governor toward a solution of the immediate problem—only the latest of many the Amish have posed for government wherever they live...
...Two—The young revolutionaries understood clearly that there was no hope for their country unless they stripped power from the military caste that had served the hated tyrant Trujillo for thirty-one years, and had overturned the democratically-elected regime of Juan Bosch...
...The FAS endorsement means that the view expressed reflects a widespread conviction of large numbers of scientists of all kinds across the nation...
...Governor Hughes is to be commended for his statesmanlike solution of a delicate test of the quality of our democracy...
...Of those who approve the President's Vietnam policy generally, almost identical majorities favor these same approaches to peace...
...That a democratic election can take place in this atmosphere is questionable...
...Fines were imposed on the parents—ultimately totaling $10,000— and finally the authorities resorted to public auctions of the Amish farmers' produce to pay the fines...
...Neither side is completely satisfied, but the agreement seems to gain for both the state and the Amish at least their major objectives...
...The lack of land reform highlights what is perhaps the largest single stumbling block to progress in Latin America—the resistance of the few immensely wealthy families to social change...
...Louis Post-Dispatch recently noted that White House correspondents have observed that Mr...
...This is one of the rare cases in which the big medical union has had to eat a large portion of crow...
...The Court held in the Mississippi case that there was state involvement in denial of rights because three of the seventeen accused individuals are police officers...
...Under its terms, the Amish can keep their schools, but they will now be public schools, rented from the Amish at $1 a year each...
...In the face of so much terror, so much unemployment (one-half the population), so much hunger, so much uncertainty, this talk of "peace" and "calm" may win recruits—though in a normal situation Bosch could easily get seventy per cent of the votes...
...Educational reforms are not keeping pace with the rapidly growing school-age population—again a reflection of the high birth rate—and only eight of every hundred children who enter school complete secondary education...
...Johnson's face...
...Normile filed a $400,000 libel suit against the AMA...
...Chavez rallied support from the faculties and students of California campuses, from celebrities and some political leaders, and enlisted the aid of other unions in boycotts against the employers...
...That a democratic government can function in the shadow of the military caste and U.S...
...The Liberal Party, of which he was the prime mover, generally has lined up with the Democrats, but backed John V. Lindsay last fall in his successful campaign for Mayor of New York...
...This great Chief Justice has just celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday, and, we are happy to say, seems as physically vigorous and mentally alert as ever...
...No religion will be taught in school...
...If there were no other choice but the appalling one of withdrawing from Vietnam or fighting a major war "with hundreds of thousands of casualties," sixty per cent said they would choose such a major war, while thirty-one per cent would choose withdrawal...
...The Douglas bill is not given much chance of enactment at this session, but the Hart bill is rated as having a chance of passage if the White House endorses and vigorously supports it...
...In fairness to him, the statement that he did so is retracted...
...Under his short regime, 200 to 250 pro-democrats have been kidnapped and killed...
...Instead of voluntary exile for "the thirty or forty Communists, Bundy now demanded they be put into concentration camps...
...A clear majority would rather end the war than bomb North Vietnam cities, and still more would rather end it than fight a land war in China or get into an atomic war with Russia...
...But the center of the storm, the reactionary military, is still there...
...The Amish resisted...
...Iowa's compulsory education laws require attendance through age sixteen in a private or public school whose teachers are certified by the state—certainly reasonable requirements...
...The original draft of the statement was prepared by more than a score of medical doctors, biologists, chemists, and related scientists located generally in the Boston area—at Harvard, Bran-deis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tufts, and Amherst...
...troops...
...It is true that much has been accomplished: 130,000 housing units have been built—but the need is for at least fifteen million...
...Packaged Inflation Concerned about the shrinking dollar, Washington has tried—or talked about trying—all sorts of anti-inflation measures ranging from President Johnson's appeals to industrial leaders to hold back on capital goods investment and the release of trial balloons about tax increases, to Administration efforts to hold firm on wage guidelines and trim funds for Federal welfare programs...
...James Deakin of the St...
...many have gone "over the hill" in recent years, and one Iowa storekeeper estimates, on the basis of his transistor radio battery sales, that there must be a teen-ager's radio hidden in nearly every Amish farm's haymow...
...The AMA has had to admit that its phonograph and tape recordings of Normile's voice were spurious...
...They farm with old-fashioned horse power...
...When Figueres advised Rosario that all this had been agreed to, a joyous Dominican telephoned the details to the foreign secretary of Colonel Francisco Camaano in Santo Domingo...
...Two Remarkable leaders Two of the nation's most dedicated and productive social reformers—David Dubinsky of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union and James G. Patton of the National Farmers Union—recently stepped down from the leadership of these organizations which, over the years, they forged into instruments not only to gain benefits for their members but to improve the lot of millions of their countrymen...
...David E. Feller, former Steelworkers general counsel who represented Normile, called the record a complete fabrication which portrayed his client as "a semi-literate moron . . . and thug" who was violating his trust to union members...
...The AMA retraction also states, with a ludicrous air of innocence: "As a result of its exhaustive investigation, the AMA is now satisfied that Mr...
...A grower and one of the country's largest distillers, Schenley agreed to begin bargaining with NFWA on a contract, with both parties seeking a signed pact by early June...
...Arrayed against these two small unions—which like many a forlorn farm labor strike of the past three decades lacked funds and the support of Federal or state laws guaranteeing and enforcing their organizing rights—was the economic and political power of the state's grape growers, and at least some of the influence of California's $3.8 billion-a-year agricultural industry...
...And instead of exiling the Trujillista generals, he insisted the pro-democrat officers be deported...
...The Negro has moved farther faster in the twelve years since the historic Warren Court school desegregation decision than in all the preceding ninety years following the Civil War...
...It concluded: "The AMA sincerely regrets the error...
...More of almost everything is being produced, but not enough more even to keep up with the rising tide of people, let alone improve their standards...
...When Schenley agreed to recognize his union, which Chavez says will affiliate with the AFL-CIO, it was a historic moment of triumph for farm workers across the land...
...More than nine out of ten favor negotiating directly with the Vietcong...
...Johnson recognized he had made a terrible blunder and wanted to rectify it—but a great nation like the United States could not retreat without some face-saver...
...The fact that we are now resorting to such methods shows a shocking deterioration of our moral standards . . . "Such attacks serve, moreover," the statement continued, "as a precedent for the use of similar but even more dangerous chemical agents against our allies and ourselves...
...Hope is stirred that having been rebuked for such skulduggery, the AMA will turn over a new ethical leaf...
...They are supported in their stubbornness by the military and the Catholic Church, whose hierarchy in Latin America is, with a few remarkable exceptions, the most socially backward in the world...
...Coming as an epilogue to the AMA's crushing defeat on Medicare, the penalty it paid for the Normile forgery is gratifying even if the punishment seems somewhat on the light side...
...It is a tradition infinitely worth saving...
...Dubinsky and Patton in mothballs...
...Chavez, whose NFWA members, mostly Mexican-Americans, had been forged by him into a community with a credit union and other pooled resources, with pride and unified purpose, was something new for the growers...
...At the White House, where polls have been a staple diet digested to see what might nourish—and occasionally advise—the Administration, there has been a cooling of the enthusiasm for such surveys since the Harris and Gallup polls—and now the Stanford poll -—have disclosed that the public is moving away from official Washington doctrine on Vietnam policy...
...The 20,000 Amish in the United States are located mainly from Pennsylvania west through Kansas...
...policy away from economic colonialism and anti-Communism—with its emphasis on military support—toward a framework of economic aid which will allow Latin America to effect the radical social reforms so vital to the solution of its awesome problems...
...The FDA has more false-advertising cases in the works, including some involving the Journal...
...The school board will provide certified teachers, but they must be satisfactory to the Amish...
...Dubinsky and his union drove sweatshops and racketeers out of the New York ladies' garment industry, raised wages, improved working conditions, won welfare benefits for employes, and went on to campaign for state and Federal laws that socially and economically benefited not only his members but millions of other Americans...
...intervention, we find it hard to detect a single extenuating circumstance for what was clearly an immoral and illegal action...
...They dress in black...
...Today, with national elections scheduled for June 1, none of these conditions prevails in that hapless nation of 3.3 million people...
...Notes in the News The Wine of Victory In the springtime of the thirty-first year since passage of the National Labor Relations Act, farm workers for the first time have made what appears to be a major breach in the wall against unionism—a wall defended so long and bitterly by growers, farm corporations, and their associations...
...Jose Figueres, former President of Costa Rica and a democratic statesman with good relations with the White House, discussed formulas for a settlement with Dr...
...The extra school costs are provided for by a private foundation, at least until the legislature meets, when the governor hopes to secure a special appropriation for this and other extraordinary school purposes...
...But when the choice is widened, forty-nine per cent would choose to continue the present situation indefinitely, twenty-three per cent would choose to fight a major war, and nineteen per cent would favor withdrawal...
...Congressional conservatives, both Republican and Democratic, who noisily argue that inflation requires sharp cuts in Great Society programs, have shed some tears for the housewife whose budget is squeezed...
...they represent an attack on the entire population of the region where the crops are destroyed, combatants and non-combatants alike...
...He also is making efforts to have the fines cancelled...
...The Justice Department responded promptly, announcing it was drafting a bill tailored to the Court's prescription...
...Farm production as a whole," the Bank reported, "continues to develop at an unsatisfactory rate...
...Furthermore, in reviewing U.S...
...This is a right so fundamental, said the Court in effect, that it doesn't matter that it is not explicitly guaranteed in the Constitution...
...The President should heed the urgent plea of this large group of distinguished American scientists to turn away from this barbarous method of wholesale killing in Vietnam...
...The law does not, however, cover the acts of private citizens...
...Science and other such modern folderol are barred from the curriculum...
...five thousand new industrial firms have been financed...
...It will be interesting to see whether the Administration pushes truth-in-packaging legislation hard enough to put these conservatives to the test...
...These decisions open the way to the destruction of the Southern sanctuary in which white men could wreak violence and death on Negroes and civil rights workers almost at will, without fear of successful prosecution in a Federal, and much less a local court...
...As we went to press in mid-April, the NFWA and Di Giorgio had not agreed upon election terms, and the NFWA had begun a boycott against the company's products which are marketed under the S & W Fine Foods label...
...military strength...
...Under this formula the Dominican Republic would be permitted to install a government headed by a member of Juan Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD), so long as it was not Bosch himself, and the U.S...
...White House officials confirmed this impression...
...It was on the matter of schooling that the Amish, in excercising their religious conscience, ran head on against the state exercising its democratic authority to set minimum education standards to protect the public good...
...AMA Under Fire," The Progressive, February, 1964...
...But more important, Warren continues to demonstrate his resolve that every citizen, regardless of color or class or condition, shall receive equal treatment and protection under the laws of the land...
...Whatever the long-run effects of the Delano grape pickers' strike might prove to be without new legislation, the benefits can be expanded to other workers in the "factories in the fields" sooner and more surely through Federal and state laws applying collective bargaining rights and wage and hour minimum standards to farm labor...
...The most significant finding of the Stanford survey was that, contrary to White House policy, eighty-eight per cent of the persons polled favor negotiating with the Vietcong to end the war...
...The voice was heard ordering the members to contribute money to "knock out" the "docs" and promote the Medicare bill...
...Striking grape pickers at Delano, California, who along with millions of other agricultural workers are excluded from the Federal act's guarantees of the right to organize and bargain collectively, surmounted this and other major obstacles to make labor history with these accomplishments: U One of their two striking organ-¦' izations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), won recognition as sole bargaining agent for some 400 grape workers employed by Schenley Industries...
...classrooms for a million pupils have been constructed...
...Another striking disclosure of the poll was that a fifty-two per cent majority would be willing to see the Vietcong included in a South Vietnam coalition government—a prospect abhorred by Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...By the time President Johnson's aide, McGeorge Bundy, arrived in that city to negotiate the details, however, the Administration's obsession with Communism and its commitment to reactionary armies were glaringly revealed...
...But this effort did not fail...
...In an unusual advisory opinion the Supreme Court practically invited Congress to strengthen the law by extending it to cover private citizens as well as states and state officials...
...Our first official excuse for armed intervention was that Americans in the Dominican Republic needed the protection of U.S...
...Only 7,500 doctors are trained each year in all Latin America rather than the 17,500 projected when the Alliance was conceived...
...Chemical warfare is cheap...
...Responses to other questions revealed that only a minority was willing to face higher taxes and reductions in domestic social welfare and education programs to finance the Vietnam war...
...The strike began in early September with a walkout from the fields by members of the Agricultural Workers Organization Committee (AWOC), an AFL-CIO affiliate, claiming 2,000 members, mostly Filipino-Americans led by Larry Itliong...
...A recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank revealed that not only has economic growth failed to reach the minimum goal of 2.5 per cent per capita in most Latin nations but the overall birth rate, among the highest in the world, more than eats up the gains that have been made...
...Under Patton it has made an impressive liberal record, often in alliance with the labor movement...
...Figueres, we are told, claimed that Mr...
...The use of gas, crop-killers, defoliants, and the like is indeed stark evidence of "a shocking deterioration of our moral standards...
...The United States got its way—temporarily, at least...
...But, overall, Latin America has not moved forward in the first five years of a somewhat irresolute Alliance...
...Three years ago the Oelwein, Iowa, district school board began an attempt to enforce the law on a handful of Amish families who had fifty youngsters in two rural schoolhouses of their own...
...Fortunately, these remarkable leaders are retiring only as presidents of their respective unions, and not as reformers...
...Patton and his NFU aided in the enactment of the "full" Employment Act of 1946, the Food for Peace plan of 1954, and the founding of the world food program of the United Nations, as well as in lobbying for farm price parity laws, school lunch programs, and the 1965 agricultural bill which he calls the "best farm bill ever...
...an average annual increase of only 1.6 per cent over the past five years . . . per capita domestic output of nutritionally important products such as meat, milk, and eggs seems to have actually declined...
...President Johnson has endorsed the principles of both truth-in-packaging and truth-in-lending legislation, but the Administration has not put any serious weight behind Senator Philip Hart's packaging bill or Senator Paul Douglas' bill designed to enable borrowers to shop around for lower interest rates...
...They went to jail rather than comply...
...In Chile, for example, the upper one per cent of the agricultural families receives one-fourth the total farm income while the bottom eighty-seven per cent of the farm labor force receives only one-third...
...But hope is then eroded with the news from Washington that on two recent occasions the Food and Drug Administration had singled out the AMA's Journal for running false advertising of prescription medicines...
...In neither case can these men be tried for murder, which is not a Federal crime, but they can be tried on the grounds they violated the civil rights of their victims...
...With the importation of braceros from Mexico now forbidden by Federal law, the strike could not be broken by using them as scab labor in the vineyards...
...The President may take some comfort in the fact that the Stanford survey, which was developed by a group of social scientists at Stanford and conducted in late February and early March by the National Opinion Research Center of the University of Chicago, found sixty-one per cent of those interviewed approved his handling of the Vietnam situation...
...Thirty-one years without the protections afforded to employes of industry and business constitute far too long a span for farm workers to be treated as second-class citizens...
...The philosophy behind the law is that education is so important, both to a child's future and to society, that even his parents cannot deny him its advantages...
...Johnson "is not mentioning the polls as much as he once did...
...The AMA Retracts In an out-of-court settlement of what is believed to be the country's first case of libel by phonograph record, the American Medical Association has publicly apologized to Paul Normile, a district director of the United States Steel Workers, and paid him $25,000 in damages...
...K The largest vineyard employer in the area, Di Georgio Corporation, said it would accept the union chosen by its employes in a secret-ballot election that it proposed be held for all its farm workers on its four California ranches including the one at Delano...
...In the long run the use of such weapons by the United States is thus a threat, not an asset, to our national security...
...Any honest appraisal of the second half of the Alliance's ten-year program must be gloomy...
...Any union members who did not contribute, said "Normile" in "dese" and "dose" language, took the risk of transfer to the "graveyard shift" in the mills where they worked...
...It was precisely this corrupt military caste that the Johnson Administration sought, and seeks, to preserve...
...One Year Later It is just a year ago that President Johnson reversed a thirty-year-old policy of non-intervention in Latin America and dispatched 27,000 troops to the Dominican Republic in the name of democracy, peace, and stability...
...We take comfort in the fact that with the succession of Louis Stulberg to the ILGWU presidency, and Tony T. Dechant to the NFU's highest post, their predecessors have been freed for new opportunities to advance progressive ideas and programs...
...Of even greater importance is the need for a major shift in U.S...
...It is a measure of the painfully slow progress that Alliance officials have stopped talking about a ten-year program and are now thinking in terms of decades, a more realistic time scale for the task , ahead...
...One of the more hopeful prospects for the long-run future—if not the next few years—is the current ferment among many of the younger clergy and even some of the bishops for truly radical social reform...
...Negro who was gunned down on a Georgia highway, also produced an uncommon ruling...
...It also prefers a military standstill to an escalated and prolonged war...
...They affirm once again that the Supreme Court is determined that justice will be dealt out equally under the law to white and black alike...
...Under his leadership the union grew from an organization of 24,000 that could not pay its bills to a present membership of 447,000 with about $97 million in the ILGWU general fund and $400 million held in trust for retirement and welfare benefits...
...We urge the President," the scientists concluded, "to proclaim publicly that the use of such chemical weapons by our armed forces is forbidden, and to oppose their use by the South Vietnamese or any of our allies...
...A few countries are making encouraging strides...
...Here was what seemed to be another doomed-to-fail effort of seasonal farm laborers to win something better than the wretched wages and living conditions they and their families had put up with for decades...
...With that statement Governor Hughes reported a Solomon-like settlement of a perplexing three-year-old battle between the state's stubborn school authorities and fifteen equally intractable families of the Old Order Amish...
...Equal Justice The Supreme Court took the nation a giant stride down the road toward equal justice when it unanimously affirmed that the Department of Justice could take action against the alleged killers of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and a Negro traveler in Georgia...
...The AMA depicts itself as highly ethical, but the record keeps contradicting this self-portrait...
...A fifty-four per cent majority favored holding free elections in South Vietnam even if the Vietcong might win...
...In the process, the intervention to "save lives" increased the number of Dominican dead from 150 before the Marines landed to 4,000...
...Leaning Over Backwards "One of the most precious parts of the American heritage," said Iowa's Governor Harold E. Hughes recently, "has been our willingness as a people to lean over backwards to assure minority groups freedom of conscience...
...The general picture," the report stated, ". . . in housing and public health is rather bleak . . . Nearly forty-five million persons live under impossible overcrowded conditions . . . and in units built with improvised material which can provide no real form of shelter...
...Eighty-one per cent oppose withdrawal from Vietnam and letting "the Communists take over...
...Barbarous Tactics The Executive Council of the prestigious Federation of American Scientists recently condemned U.S...
...A week later 1,100 Delano-area members of Cesar Chavez' NFWA, an independent union, voted to join the strike...
...The People Dissent The American public is far more willing than is the Administration to take a realistic approach to the negotiation of peace in Vietnam...
...intervention split their forces in two, hemmed them in, and reinforced the unspeakable General Wessin y Wessin...
...Now, midway through the decade during which self-sustaining growth was to have been achieved, the excitement has died down and much of the original hope has been frustrated...
...When neither the Amish nor the Oelwein school board showed signs of budging, Governor Hughes stepped in as mediator and succeeded in effecting at least a temporary settlement...
...The Amish children must follow regular attendance rules rather than work at farming during the busy seasons...
...Of all the Stanford poll respondents, forty-six per cent opposed and forty-five per cent approved having a half million troops in Vietnam if that many were needed to continue the war...
...This probably means that science and other subjects objectionable to the Amish will be glossed over lightly...
...The Court determined that the Negro's right to travel from state to state had been violated...
...They favor a U.N.-supervised truce by almost three to one...
...They have whole new careers ahead of them...
...The Alliance at Midpassage It is five years since President John F. Kennedy generated a powerful current of excitement and hope among our Latin American neighbors—and ourselves—with his announcement of the Alliance for Progress, a ten-year, $20 billion program of economic development and self-help coupled with social and political reforms...
...Looking back, after twelve months, we find two facts that stand out: One—There was a genuine, democratic revolution in progress last April which the United States not only did not help but tried to destroy...
...It seems odd that Washington's anti-inflation experts and theorists have said nothing about the dollar-stretching possibilities of Senator Hart's truth-in-packaging bill...
...Because of its depth the survey came up with more meaningful public responses than any poll on Vietnam has produced so far...
...Marines would withdraw...
...Never...
...Normile did not make the speech in question...
...Some weeks later, after the Johnson Administration had received much criticism at home and abroad, a remarkable behind-the-scenes mediation effort occurred...
...As part of its all-out campaign against Medicare the AM A made 5,000 reproductions of the recording in the form of records and tapes, and distributed them with booklets "identifying" the voice as that of Normile...
...The revolutionaries, despite some self-doubts, were only thirty-six to forty-eight hours from victory when U.S...
...use of chemical warfare in Vietnam in a declaration that speaks for itself: "We emphatically condemn," said the scientists, "the use of chemical agents for the destruction of crops, by United States forces in Vietnam . . . Even if it can be shown that the chemicals are not toxic to man, such tactics are barbarous because they are indiscriminate...
...These are two of the major conclusions that emerge from the Stanford poll, probably the most significant and comprehensive exploration yet conducted of the public's views on our choices in Vietnam...
...The children fled to the fields when attempts were made to load them bodily aboard buses and cart them off to the public schools...
...In February, when Garcia-Godoy's own palace guards shot up a demonstration of teen-agers, killing four and wounding forty-three, American jeeps were roaming the neighborhood but did nothing to stop the bloodshed...
...Rosario was confident that the Communists, to prevent more bloodshed and regain national sovereignty for their country, would make this sacrifice, especially since for every Communist sent abroad it was agreed that one Trujillista general would similarly be shipped out...
...After an extremely effective eight-day general strike, initiated by Bosch, Garcia-Godoy did—to his credit—install a more moderate chief-of-staff and a better police chief...
...There has been very little actual land redistribution during the last four years," the Bank reported...
...This was so transparently untrue that the official justification was quickly switched to the need for prevention of a "Communist takeover"—which few knowledgeable people believed...
...The Amish still travel in buggies, do without plumbing, electricity, radio, telephones, and television...
...Some news reports and White House comment contend that disagreement with Presidential policy comes mainly from those who think he is not pressing the war hard enough...
...Much of that determination can be traced to the superb leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren, who has been rated by Professor Fred Rodell of the Yale Law School as the greatest Chief Justice in the nation's history...
...The basis for the Court's judgment in the Mississippi case is an 1870 Federal law which prohibits states from conspiring to deprive citizens of their rights...
...After much discussion and two visits to the White House by Figueres, it was agreed that the Dominicans would ask thirty or forty Communists to accept voluntary exile and overseas assignments to save Mr...
...The Georgia case, involving a Washington, D.C...
...For a half century David Dubinsky served the ILGWU, thirty-four years of that time as its president...
...The AMA added that all the material on Normile in its hands, or in AMPAC's, had been destroyed, and urged any person having such tapes and recordings to destroy them...
...If his measure became law it could help establish true price competition in the grocery and household goods field and enable the housewife to regain some of the ground she is losing to inflation...
...What is needed, too, is not only time but a recasting of Alliance programs in directions that will strike at more basic problems—such as world markets and price supports for Latin exports, which have suffered catastrophic declines...
...In any case, the Amish isolation extends to providing their own schools and teachers, with both pupils and the Amish women who instruct them limited to an eighth grade education...
...This was better than the forty-nine per cent support on Vietnam in the Louis Harris poll issued February 28, and the fifty per cent approval rating on this question in the Gallup poll released March 9. But in the Stanford poll, as in the other major polls on Vietnam, when it comes to what is really at issue—the specific approaches to a Vietnam solution—the growing rift between public thinking and the Administration approach was clearly disclosed...
...Our obsession with Communism has led to such a vast diversion of our attention and resources to Vietnam that we are in danger of allowing poverty to ignite a worse conflagration right on our own doorstep...
...No one has been convicted for any of these crimes...
...Agrarian land reform projected by the Alliance has never really advanced...
...In the field of human rights Warren has established a monumental record...
...Antonio del Rosario, leader of the Dominican Social Christian Party, a group with a left-of-center platform similar to that of President Frei in Chile, and closely aligned with Bosch...
...The details have never been made public by the State Department, but they were told to a Progressive correspondent by a reliable source in Santo Domingo...
...The effect was to preserve the militarist cancer and force Bosch and his friends into an untenable political position...
...One way to achieve partial deflation of the inflation that boosted the cost of one dollar's worth of groceries to $1.06 during the past year is to squeeze some of the air and deception out of the packaging of foods and household goods...
...Consider these high points in the year's drama...
...small countries can practice it effectively against us and will probably do so if we lead the way...
...Patton, who is sixty-three and plans "to have even more fun after leaving my job," will continue to be president of the NFU's insurance companies while working "very hard" for an end to war, expansion of Great Society concepts, and the Food for Freedom program to improve the agricultural output of under-developed countries, an idea he has advocated for many years and which is now an Administration goal...
...Dubinsky, now seventy-four, will remain influential in his union's councils, a power in the AFL-CIO as a member of its executive board, a vice-chairman of New York's Liberal Party, and a man who carries considerable weight with President Johnson, as he did with Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, and Kennedy...
...We agree with the implied conviction of the governor that our system is strong enough, and flexible enough, to secure the public good and at the same time "lean over backwards" to provide protection for the rights of conscience of a minority, however far out, which in no way attempts to inflict its practices upon the majority...
...Hector Garcia-Godoy was installed as provisional President on September 3, 1965, and elections were set for June 1. Garcia-Godoy is a sincere but weak man, and his only power rests on U.S...
...the traditional German language instruction will be continued, but as an extracurricular subject taught by Amish women...
...All of this can only bolster the candidacy of Joaquin Balaguer, who was once Trujillo's puppet president and is now campaigning on the single promise that he can bring peace and calm...
...The Administration, if it studies these responses, might be encouraged to seek direct negotiations with the Vietcong and take other major steps towards peace...
...This inflammatory material sent out to local AMA societies and women's auxiliaries by AMPAC was designed to spur contributions and volunteer effort in the AMA's nationwide crusade against Medicare...
...In its public retraction that was part of the recent settlement, the AMA said that it had believed "in good faith that the tape recording was authentic," a conviction we find hard to accept in view of the cloak-and-dagger circumstances under which the original tape recording was first delivered to an AMA political representative for $20 by a stranger identified only as "Cousin...
...The greatest democracy in the world has disgraced itself in its contributions to the shackling of democratic development in this tiny, feeble neighbor...
...They shield their children from the world in an effort to preserve the sect's strict interpretations of Biblical teaching...
...Liberal leaders with the zeal, the skill, and the national prestige of David Dubinsky and James Patton are so rare that they cannot be spared from public service...
...Back in 1963 the AM A came into possession—through the Pennsylvania branch of its political arm, the American Medical Political Action Committee (AMPAC)—of a recording purported to be the voice of Normile addressing a group of union members...
...An oldtime Socialist—as a youth in Russian Poland he was sent to Siberia for union activity—his reform efforts in this country were accompanied by militant opposition to Communism...
...In Lima, Peru, 800,000 persons in slums and shanties—more than a third of the population—do not have access to running water or even a street pump or well...
...determination to keep it all-powerful is even more questionable...
...The Stanford poll asked many important questions...
Vol. 30 • May 1966 • No. 5
