Word: bayh
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PEOPLE ON both sides of the party line are focusing attention this fall on a hot and heavy Senatorial campaign in Indiana. Indianapolis Mayor Republican Richard G. Lugar is waging an uphill battle against Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh who seeks re-election to a third term as the state's junior senator...
Both candidates have made inflation their major issue--with Lugar battering Bayh's "inflationary" voting record. Since the party primaries in June, Bayh has countered with criticism of the nugatory "Nixonomics" under the past Republican administration...
Lugar, 42, and Bayh, 46, are articulate, youthful, and commanding and both have announced presidential aspirations. Their political futures may hinge on success or failure in this campaign...
...years ago, Bayh trounced his Republican opponent--William Ruckelshaus, one-time EPA director--by more than 70,000 votes. Though Lugar is admittedly an underdog, Indiana Republicans believe their chances are a great deal more auspicious this year. Lugar's marks the first Republican administration in nearly two decades and only the third in the last 40 years of Indianapolis politics. A former Rhodes Scholar and valedictorian of his Denison College class, Lugar has amassed an impressive record as two-term mayor. In January 1974, a U.S. News and World Report analysis revealed that, among cities its size, citizens...
Remarkable Inconsistency. This week the Senate Government Operations Committee is expected to approve a bill introduced by Senator Birch Bayh that would give all federal officials-including Nixon-180 days after they leave office to turn over to the General Services Administration any documents and tapes produced in Government service. The GSA would deposit the materials in the National Archives. As in the case of the Pentagon Papers, the documents would belong to the Government...