Vidal Campaigns For New Party

Gore Vidal, author and social critic, said last week that the "bankruptcy of American two-party government" has turned him into a political activist. He was appearing in his new role in Boston to publicize the New Party, a national political party formed during the Chicago Convention of 1968.

As New Party co-chairman, along with Dr. Benjamin Spock, Vidal stated that it is committed to running a presidentail candidate in 1972, even if that means opposing McGovern or Muskie. According to Vidal, the present Administration is "trapped by the mechanism that elected it."

Noise

"We may be only a drop in the bucket," he said, conceding that the New Party Candidate would be unlikely to win, "but we'll be a noisy drop."

Vidal gained considerable attention in 1968 when he engaged in a heated television debate with conservative William F. Buckley. This fall he will hit the air again, representing not him self but the New Party.