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by Peter Crown Special to iheDTll 1 1 .'Hit (Editor's note: V.'illLzm F. Buckley. Jr. 7 speak Wednesday at 8 p.m. in tmorul It all Peter Brown ii th? president of the Carolina Forum, which ii sponsoring Buckley's visit. The following article L the first of a two-part series analyzing anrf commenting on Buckley 's carer. J Share Conn, is a beautiful town. As the Kennedy family had their gatherings at a sea compound in Hyannisport, Mass, so do the Buckeys reunite themselves periodically on the grounds in Sharon, Conn. Their compound is stately, quiet, and sheltered cozily in the northwestern corner of Connecticut, above New York City. Away from the hubbub. Called Greaf Elm, the estate resembles an old Southern mansion, down to the white front columns. It a here at Great Elm, a short time 2o, that the national leaders of Yours Americans For Freedom met to manspnj editor cf .Nation -J Once he a 4 . Gillian F. Buckley Sr. would instruct and Biliwin, -roted down 543 t. 160 release their Statement. little pub.ucizsd on They announced a firm stance for the principles that America was founded ca and say so unanimously: that all Americans are entitled to life, liberty and .the purrait of happiness. In this undeniably beautiful town, nestled in the rolling hills of the Berkshire mountains, attractive in its settled New England serenity, with its elms and greens, it is no wonder that William F. Buckley, Sr. settled their with his bride from New Orleans. One reads of the dinners in the Buckley household where Buckley Sr. would engage the family in lively conservative conversation -the spirited talk of a successful oil millionare. With the family spaced around the table, including the now newly-elected Conservative Senator from New York, Tames Buckley, and sister Priciila, the t 9 9 vv.vvv.v.vvvv.v.vv.v.v.v.v.vv.:v.v.v.vo 'A f ! es mews Students selected to visit Colombia Lynett Brooks and Larry McBennett were selected Saturday to attend the University of Antioquh as members of , the Colombian Exchange from UNC. , ine pair wm journey 10 coiomoia in January to study under full scholarship for two semesters. Miss Brooks, a junior majoring in 'business administration, is from Durham. Bennett a senior from Fayetteville, is a .'political science major. ',' They will attend classes on the !Antioquia campus, which opened in ;1 967. The campus is located in the center of Medeilin, Colombia, a city of a 5iiillion-and-a-half people. ? Academically the university is modelled after its American counterparts. Hxchange students carry a course load comparable to that of Carolina. Credit ."will be given by the University for approximately two-thirds of the courses Taken in Colombia. '. All classes and texts are in Spanish. Two students from Antioquia campus are attending classes here this year. They are Ana Lucia Uribe and Guillermo Alvarez. ; Health Union votes money for aid The Student Union of the School of Public Health voted to donate $100 to the Pakistan Relief Fund at its Thursday night meeting. , . ' "Because of the immensity of this disaster and the overwhelming health problems it has engendered," said Dan Warren, treasurer of the Union, "we feel that a donation of $100 is an appropriate use of Union funds. , ; We hope that our action serves as a challenge to other schools," he added. ' The Union of the School of Public Health is a student organization which works to "promote health in its broadest aspects. Though Buckley has run for public office he remains more of a political writer and advisor than a statesman. He ..once considered opposing Senator Jacob i Tavits' seat in New York. However, it is jld that he regarded the experience as .-"(. .-. . . . -valuahlp mjttprial fnr hi hnnlr Tht relate. It is said that occassiona"y a younger voice from the end of that tab! 2 odi also attempt to instruct and relate (William F. Buckley Jr.). While the older brothers and sisters would vehemently retaliate, it was father. Buckley who protected William Jr., as he piped up from the end of the table with occasional moments of wit and impertinence. Whether or not the story is true, the style of William F. Buckley has carried over, for he has remained, in a quarter century, the asp-toungued aegis for the Conservative cause in America. He produces a steady outpour of Conservative opinion as editor of National Review, a magazine pledged to "stand athwart history yelling stop" He has been a best-selling author with books such as God And Man At Yale, The Governor Listeth and The Jewlers Eye, which has sold over 45,000 copies. His newspaper column, "On the Right," is carried by over 300 newspapers, Buckley's frequent television appearances, both on his own show, "Firing Line," and his numerous television debates such as the infamous exchange with Gore Vidal at the 1968 Democratic Convention where Buckley said "Don't call me a crypto-Nazi you pinko-queer, or 111 sock you in the goddam chop and youll stay plastered." However one only mentions this because it is so uncharacteristic of the eloquent and logical arguments ad hominem, and those other arguments Mr. Buckley demolishes with the artful dodging of reductio ad absurdum. It is only with glee that even the afficinados of Buckley watch him lose his elagant composure and sally forth with a volley of expletives. His style is rather to engage himself as the picador to the bull. His is the art of provocation and perhaps that is why his place is acknowledged as significant, even by the "limosine liberals" he frequently obliterates with scatological tirades to the head, and eudaemonic jabs to the body. Though he has been attacked as being the "perfect cocktail party intellectual," one knows him to be unworthy of the title. audience at the Cambridge UrJca always. 'Lke an Evereai battery, he bounces back wiih great s Bui i and occasional w One writer mused, "Buckleys message . is more appealing if one has Lai a drink; for example, his notion that the United : States should stop treating low level nuclear explosives as if they were something special." When William F. Buckley, Jr. was at " Yale he performed well as editor (chairman) of the Yale Daily News, and - under his leadership and outpour of ; vitriolic editorials the faculty began to ' call the paper "The Yale Daily Nuisance." - lie graduated with honors and was '- invested into the Fence Club and was the Class Day Orator. ' Findaig campus life unsatisfactory in several iispects he wrote, shortly after graduation, God And Man At Yale. Here he illustrates a faculty penchant for advancicg the spread of atheism and ' socialism. An" extraordinarily well documented text, it is now considered a small classic and was a best seller upon ' publication. u Recognizing Buckley's brilliance, his v classmates forgave him the attack and were said to recognize the amicable side i of his nature when he allowed them to i play the one-armed bandit he kept in his college room. . 3 As he believes today, his insistence was j then that Yale College should not n underestimate the approaching .. -armageddon between the two most ; .powerful forces in the world: the duel r between Christianity and atheism. He maintains that the struggle between 4 individuality and collectivism is the same . struggle on a different scale. One finds it staggering that while others were down at 'rcthe Yale Bowl waving handkerchiefs, Uuckley would be supporting such -monumental conceptions. Y-5 t 4. -Sk msaa 1 Ai WASHIVGTON-James E. Farmer, one of the Nixoa administrations top-ranked black ofGcials, resigned Monday as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and He' cited -personal considers tions" for his resignation and in return President Nixon praised him for his "many contributions" during his 22 months with the " Farr r former head of the Confess of Racial Equality (CORE), wrote Nixon:"! 'greatly appreciate the opportunity 1 have had'during the past year and a half to further this administration's efforts in behalf of the American people, particularly blacks and other minorities," Farmer's letter said. "I am proud of whatever contributions I have been able to make during this period and I would like to assure you that I am available for whatever service my future commitments wO allow," Farmer said. With a "Dear Jim,' reply Nixon "expressed regret" at Farmer s departure. if fi H tt U ft Q 9 iL WASHINGTON Vithout consulting Washington, a Boston-based Coast Guard admiral permitted Russian seamen to board a U.S. cutter, seize and beat a Soviet defector, and haul him back aboard their trawler Ln a net, reports to the White House showed Monday. Details of the abortive Nov. 23 defection of the Lithuanian Fisherman off the Massachusetts coast were disclosed in twin reports by the Departments of State and Transportation. They were ordered by President Nixon last week to explain why the man was not given an opportunity to seek political asylum. The report, by the Transportation Department, which administers the Coast Guard, said the actual order to hand the man back to the Russians was given by Adm. William B. Ellis, commander of the 1st Coast Guard District at Boston. It said he acted from his sick bed without the advice of the State Department. The reports also complained that the Coast Guard had never been given guidelines on how to deal with defectors and that its communications with the State Department were insufficient to permit it to obtain guidelines once it was confronted with the defectinn attempt. 1 s 42 LOS ANGELES-A defense attorney in the Tate murder trial said Monday that missing defense lawyer Ronald Hughes may be dead in a wilderness area north of here.;:," : Paul Fitzgerald, who went into the area Sunday, said that Hughes had been missing for eight or nine days and he certainly would have been found by now if he had been seeking help. . "It's no joke," Fitzgerald said, "or any ploy to bring on a mistrial. He may well be dead. That seems probable at this point." , or reac 3 n ANDWK A FREE MiLIC SHAICE- On Cl !ll3FO;l - " "T a - . ; " 77l y U M OF: 9Hirit'i 1Sth Dec.) COKE COFFEE Unmaking Of A Mayor. f i Tpfnorrow j Peter, JBrovm writes of Buckley's similarity to John F. 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