Massachusetts Y A F To Publish Periodical

The Massachusetts chapter of Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) plans to start publishing a newspaper this month that will replace its first attempt at a newspaper; The Right Wing Thing, which folded after two issues last fall.

The new publication, named either Counterpoint or Prometheus, will come out six times a school year and will have an initial circulation of 25,000.

Douglas W. Cooper, editor of the paper and a first year graduate student in applied physics, said that the paper's purpose is "to get a different point of view in front of people-primarily freshmen and sophomores-who haven't made up their minds yet about where they stand politically."

According to Cooper, donations from "lots of rich, old conservatives" will provide funds to publish the paper.

The first issue, which will be distributed among college students in the Boston and Springfield areas, will include articles about the draft, the Middle East crisis, and federal conspiracy laws.

Another article will explain how YAF was reportedly driven out of its office in downtown Boston on TDA in connection with suspected arson. The landlord asked the organization to leave his building after smoledring oily rags were discovered in the office, Cooper said.