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wt . Ls , 9 | . | NY 100-161445 - . SECREY-= No FORESCW Dissrirras + RAT So Ye i ‘~ ns “STUDENTS FOR A DEMOUDRATIC SOCIFTY ~ ~ [®. The Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), as it ’ as known today, came into being at a fuunding convention held ‘ at Port Huror., Michigan, in June, "1962. The SDS is an f association of Yeune people on the jeft and has a current program of protesting tne draft, promoting a campaign for youth to develop a conse ientious objector status, denouncing United States intervention in the war in vietnam, and to “ypadically transform" tne university community, and provide for its complete control by students. GUS HALL, General Secretary, Communist Party, USA, when interviewed by a . “repr resentative of Dnited Press International in San Francisco, California, on May 14, 1965, described the SDS as a part of the “responsible left” which the Party has “going for us” At the June, 1965, SDS National convention, an anticommunist proviso was removed from the SDS constitution. In the Gectober 7, 1966, issue of "Ne. Left Notes", the official publication of SDS, an SDS spokesman stated that there are de ae eh oe © ed some Communists in. SDS and they ere welcome. The national headquarters of this organd: ation as of July 24, 1968, was Located in Room 206, 1495 weet Mrdicor Street, hhicago, Tilinois. Re : a Picsnntiits