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NEW PERSPECTIVE ON U.S.Red Nations Chill U.S. Rock GroupBy SUSAN SWARDHOLLYWOOD UP -Three members of the rock music group “Blood, Sweat and Tears” say life in the United States seems rosier now that they’ve toured three countries in Communist East Europe.The long-haired musicians told newsmen Thursday of watching Romanian police set dogs on youths and of being told by one East European after on-other that conversation with Americans had to be reported to the -government.“Suddenly you get a new perspective over there because we saw so much more wrong there than it is here,” said lead singer David Clayton-Thomas, 2D, of Toronto, Canada.“Here in the United ' States %ve- have a thing called; due process of law,” Clayton-Thomas toldHie newsmen. “If the government here wants to getyjppie leader Abbie Hoffman, they have to take him to court for years and Abbie makes thousands off the publicity.”In Romania, said drummer Bobby Colomby, 25, ot New ' York City, “if any Romanian citizen speaks to an ■ American, he’s supposed to report everything that, happens, to his government.”The nine-member rock' group toured Romania. Yugoslavia and Poland on a month-long, U-conecrt jaunt which they said cost the U.S. State Department $40,000 The group returned to Hie United Slates July 10, after performing in Belgrade, Zagreb, Lub-jana, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia; Constantsa and Bucharest, Romania; and Warsaw, Poland,It was after a concert in Bucharest June. 28, Clayton-Thomas said, that a group of youths clamored for an encore. “The policeset dogs on Ule crowd,” he said, kids broke windows and I got hysterical.“It was quite a heavy scene,” he added.Guitarist Steve Katz, 25, of New York City, said the rock group was most often asked its feelings on the Vietnam war.“They knew we’re against the war — they’reagainst the war, too. Everyone is against the war. So after a while the press would ask us about our music.”The group is perhaps best known for such singles as “Something’s Coming On,” “You Made Me So Very Happy,” “Spinning Wheel,” and “And When I Die.”Foe of Viet War Quits Draft JobOBERLIN, Kan. tfi — L. F. Cushenbery, Republican candidate for Kansas lieutenant governor, resigned today from the Selective Service board of Decatur,Sheridan and Gove counties, saying ha is “bitterly opposed to the continuation of this horrible war in Southeast Asia.” Cushenbery, an attorneyand former member of the Kansas' House of Representatives who served on tlie board about a year, sent his letter of resignation to the state SelectiveiService headquarters in Topeka and made it public through a news release.Cushenbery said, “I can no longer in good conscience sit on that board and be a party to sending I more young men to possi- 1PRESS-7ELEGRAM (MW-C7 INDEPENDENT (AM) •LMa twek, am., Fritov, MrlMtl #bly die In a war whtafcshould be fought J/Asians. *x jm AglvHiswywwaf _ ^ ^Do This IfFALSE TEETHFe«! Loot*, lawrir*Don't bi afraid that your fab*teeth will come loo*« or drop Jtitt aft the wrowc Urn* Pot more security and comfort, *arlnklt FASTUTTH* Denture M\hM»« Powdar on yourStates, pabtcetm bold* denture* rmer lonaer. Mtktf tatins tail«r* FASTEftTH is not add. No gummy* gooey, Minty taste. Dent urea that At nrc eeaentlal to health. See your dentist regularly. Oet eaay-to-ui* i FASTEBTHnt all drug countm. ^»•*PitNoel Coward, VirusLONDON Mi — Sir Noel Coward is nearly recovered from a virus infection, a spokesman at Ms hotel reported today.The spokesman at the Savoy said the 70-year-oldVictim, Recoveringactor-piaywright got sickabout 10 days ago, but his condition is not serious. He is over the worst and just about mended now.”f
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