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Incidentally, Gore Vidal, on the Johnny Carson TV show of December 1, discussing his novel Julian, got off on the proposed sex code changes in New York and spoke very favorably of it with support from cartoonist Al Capp.

In Britain they are still discussing whether or not the body of Roger Casement should be returned to Ireland. Casement was hanged for high treason by the British in 1916 but is regarded as a hero by the Irish. His Black Diaries recounts many homosexual acts.

In Canada there is discussion as to why the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have such a high rate of suicide. One explanation offered is that they are not allowed to marry for the first 5 years. We know men who wanted to commit suicide because they were allowed to get married.

MORE NEWSPAPER RESEARCH (?) ON THE SUBJECT

The Jacksonville Journal, (Florida) has a series on homosexuality written by George Harmon, Journal assistant city editor, who rode in a police car and swallowed what a 14 year old juvenile deliquent told him about homosexuals. Great reporting! Good research! But we must say that he got all the cliches in and it is always nice to have all of the unscientific, misinformation in one lump sum.

The Daily Signal, (Downey, California) reports that some citizens are beginning to fight back at the

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Citizens for Decent Literature, in that area. The Tribune Advertiser, another So. Calif. newspaper reports that Capt. W. L. Richey at, of all places, the Hollywood YMCA, said among other things that there has been no lessening of homosexual activity in Hollywood (Definitely not).

L.A. City Atty. Roger Arnebergh told the City Council's Police, Fire and Civil Defense Committee why he has not, as they apparently wished, established an anti-pornography division comparable to the one in the DA's office. One wonders just what part of the committee's business such problems fall under, civil defense?

THE CHURCHES AGAIN

Dr. M. Zeldenrust, chairman of the Dutch Association for Sexual Reform has called for discussions with the Catholic church on sex. She has said that there were two main points: love, and not the reproduction of the species, should be the main object of a marriage; that the evidence of scientists. should be considered.

How radical! But maybe not when we read that Jesuit teacher, in a magazine aua leading thorized for distribution in the six Jesuit theological seminaries of this country, has called for acceptance of the oral birth control pill. The Rev. Felix F. Cardegna, professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Seminary of Woodstock, N.Y. is speaking in the December issue of "Theological Studies, which

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