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...only last week). Similarly, by not removing the $1,000 limit on individual campaign contributions, the court eliminated the possibility that a candidate could rely solely on a handful of fat cats-as Harris and John Lindsay did in 1972. One candidate who could use some fat cats is Birch Bayh, who is having financial problems...
...Birch Bayh (D.Ind.) said yesterday in a campaign speech at Boston University that he favors forced busing to achieve school desegregation...
...marijuana. This week a poll of presidential aspirants taken by the National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws will appear-with some startling results. Among nine Democratic candidates who replied, only George Wallace stood adamantly against decriminalization of pot. Jimmy Carter, Sargent Shriver, Frank Church, Morris Udall, Henry Jackson, Birch Bayh, Fred Harris and Milton Shapp all favored making possession of minor amounts a civil offense punishable only by fine-though they favored keeping a strict penalty for pushing. Another respondent, Lloyd Bentsen, favored lessening of the criminal penalties for first offenders. So far, Republican Candi dates Gerald Ford...
...BIRCH ("Tree") BAYH, c.f. rookie: Good fielder, covers a lot of ground, in fact seems to prefer everyone else's position to his own; has tried to organize a player's union which critics insist will be part of the AFL/CIO...
Ford's program, though, does not go as far toward helping farmers as a sweeping rule change suggested by Indiana Senator-and Democratic presidential hopeful-Birch Bayh. His bill would exempt the first $200,000 of an estate from taxation entirely, though only for people who inherit family farms that were owned and controlled by the deceased for at least five years. Inheritors of small businesses would not be helped at all. Bayh charged last week that Ford's tax-deferral plan would only mean "slow death for family farms, instead of sudden death...