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JACK KEMP. President Nixon can find comfort in Buffalo's new Congressman Jack Kemp. Not only is Kemp a staunch backer of the President's policies, he is a football fan too. Kemp left a $50,000-a-year job as quarterback of the Buffalo Bills to run for the House and turned out to be as successful in politics as he had been on the field.* He had help from an old friend of his days on Governor Ronald Reagan's staff, White House Adviser Robert Finch, and from Nixon's director of communications, Herb...
Benston must win back the supportof the Yarborough backers by November 4 if he is to have a shot at defeating his Republican opponent, Rep. George Bush. Bush, and unabashed backer of President Nixon, is at the moment the favorite...
VERMONT: Vermont hasn't had a Democratic Senator since the Civil War. Former Governor Phillip H. Hoff has a good chance of ending the Republican streak, His opponent, incumbent Republican Winston Prouty, is a lacklustre, lukewarm Nixon backer. Hoff is a vibrant, energetic figure who was a popular governor and a leader of the movement for a peace plank in the Democratic platform at the national convention...
...into the votes of the Democratic candidate, Rev. Joseph D. Duffey. Dodd, who has a liberal record on domestic matters but a mysteriously conservative stance on foreign policy, will benefit from his religion. He is a Roman Catholic in a heavily Catholic state. Duffey, a peace candidate and a backer of the 1968 Presidential bid of Gene McCarthy, is a Congregationalist minister. He is a long-time liberal, and his campaign has attracted nationwide attention as an indicator of the political viability of the peace movement...
Commanders with more foresight have encouraged militants to participate in the meetings along with white enlisted and officer personnel. Black Panther sympathizer Washington sat on one such group at Tien Sha, and Cpl. Joseph Harris of Los Angeles, a Karenga backer, twice arrested during the Watts riot, participated in one at the Marine base in Chu Lai. Both Washington and Harris were given jobs to keep whites and blacks in line at their enlisted men's clubs. When Harris suggested commemorating the anniversary of King's death, the Marine command supplied food and soft drinks for 300 black soldiers...