Critics Speak Sunday On Dominican Politics

Two critics of Johnson Administration policy in the Dominican Republic will visit Harvard this weekend to report on a recent trip to Santo Domingo and to recruit unofficial observers for the island's June 1 elections.

Allard K. Lowenstein, a New York lawyer, and the Rev. Jack Mendelsohn, pastor of the Arlington St. Unitarian Church, will speak on "Santo Domingo Today" at 8 p.m. Sunday in Emerson 105.

Both were members of the Commission on Free Elections in the Dominican Republic, chaired by Bayard Ruston, which surveyed pre-election conditions through out the island last week.

The Commission hopes to send at least 25 private citizens, some of them students, to the Dominican Republic for the week of the elections, Lowenstein said last night. He explained that all Dominican political factions and spokesmen for the National Police and the Army have expressed approval for the idea of private observers.