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counter-actions have you taken as far as Bella Abzug herself is concerned?

The groups that she's associated with are Women's Strike for Peace and another group called International Women's League, which is a similar type of Women's Strike for Peace but older than it. One day a letter was sent to the 76 members of the Senate who had issued a letter to the President urging that he send arms to Israel. This was last year when Ford had put a stop on arms to Israel. And the letter was sent by two people -- one name being very prominent: Ruth Gage-Colby, who is an old peace activist who has received every peace activist award from the Left imaginable. I would not go to her dinner when they had a dinner for her a couple of years ago, because she was anti-Israel, and she had issued a statement which was anti-Israel. She was a Trotskyite -- and no question a far leftist radical. And I called up at the time and said, “Now, I want to be clear about it. It is true that the people who are sponsoring this dinner for Ruth Gage-Colby has an anti Israel position. And they said, “Yes” And I said, “Then you can't use me as a sponsor,” and I was one of the few who would not go to that dinner or be associated with honoring this Madame Passionaria -- Puth Gage-Colby. That's that Spanish Communist lady in the Spanish Civil War. She's very famous.

Okay. So one day a letter comes in which is addressed to