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ces Seeyh oo¥Ret we # "Pamparts" in a letter to subscribers dated Mav 1, 1968, announced that beginning June l, 1968, it weuld be published biweekly at a yearlv subscription price of $15. In this letter "Ramparts" described itself as follows: ".,.the first national publication to consis- tently reveal the ribbon of lies supporting America's involvement in Vietnam; we stripped the curtain from America's ‘invisible government! by exposing CIA's unlicensed intrusion into our domestic lives; we dared to write about the applications of the Catholic Church's political power: we warned, vears before the Kerner report, that white racism was the base of America's racial problems; w blasted away at the corroded institutions of Cold War liberalism. " Ramparts’ is now the largest left-of-center 3 commercial magazine in the history of the United vtates..." (oq pg,