In April of this year the Gay Liberation Movement invaded the National Convention of the American Psychiatric Association in San Francisco. They report that the main convention looked "refugee camp for Nixon's silent majority". It was 99 percent white, straight, male, middle-aged, upper middle class:
"They are the insulated ones separated in their immaculate garb, cars, country clubs, planes, expensive hotels-protected from emotional involvement by a gibberishy vocabulary which translates and my brother a ball."
The shrinks found this hard enough to take, but chaos really broke out when Gay Liberation intervened. The homosexuals present had read all about psychiatric theories on homosexuality, and from their point of the view the psychiatrists "don't know their elbows from their assholes". So they grabbed the convention floor microphone and started talking:
*We've listened to you long enough," said a bearded homesexual called Konstantin, running around the hall in a bright red dress. "We're fed up with being told we're sick. We're gay and proud."
SEX AND MEDITATION The Pentagon has begun the construc tion of a $15,000 paneled "meditation room so that America's Generals can have appropriate place to think about the next world. Presumably, the rest of the five-sided building will con tinue to be dedicated to the destruction of this one. Our pictures, however, show that God is not the only person that nation's generals turn to when trying to escape from the diffi culties of the Vietnam war. General William C. Westmoreland, well known for his "search and destroy" strategy in Indo-China under President Johnson, is here shown turning for comfort folow General Elizabeth P.
"That's the same thing, motherfucker", shouted the homosexuals.
Pandemonium ensued. Homosexuals started throwing paper aeroplanes down trom the balcony say"don't fight us, fuck us." The chairman attempted to call order so that a shrink called McConaghy could read his paper. He was interrupted by shouts of "vicious" and "torture" . The straight psychiatrists got increasingly up tight and enraged.
"They should be killed!" shouted one.
"Give us back our air fare!" shouted another...
FOR THE GENERALS ment and the regimes in Portugal and South Africa, Namibia is of growing impor tance. Until recently, there has been a tendency for the country to be ignored, or to be thought of as merely part of South Africa-a tactic which neatly suits the apartheid regime, with their claims to have incorporated the country into South Africa, despite the condemnation of the UN and of progressive forces from all over the world.
To counter the ignorance, and to stimulate greater interest in Namibia, and in the struggle there, a Friends of Namibia Committee has been formed in London, following an initiative by the South West African Peoples Organisation, (SWAPO), which is conducting the liberation struggle in the country. The Committee will seek to raise the level of consciousness about the situation in the country, and to encourage the Eton; 4th of June-see the way the ruling class label the supplies for the Namibian refugees.
The Friends of Namibia will be formally launched at a meeting on July 9th, at 7.30pm in Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.2. Speakers at the meeting, will include Peter Hain, of Stop the Seventy Tour, and also Moses Garoeb, Administrative Secretary of the South West African Peoples Organisation, who is flying to England for a tour to help launch the organisation.
Further information is available from the Secretary of Friends of Namibia, Peter Hellyer, at 54, Charteris Rd., London,