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...tell the players without a scorecard in Virginia these days. Party labels, loyalties and leaders are scrambled beyond the worst imaginings of old Harry F. Byrd Sr., who for much of his life ran Virginia politics like a military drill...
...consider that when voters go to the polls this November, they will elect as Governor one of two well-known, longtime Democrats-neither of whom is running as a Democrat. Two weeks ago one was given the Republican nomination and the other elected to run as an Independent. Byrd's once invincible Democratic Party gave up and will field no candidate for the office...
Democrats, who grew fratricidal with the collapse of the Byrd machine (Byrd Sr. died in 1966, and in 1970 his son won re-election to the U.S. Senate as an Independent), have redoubled their bloodletting since the resounding McGovern defeat. McGovernites now control an estimated 60-70% of the party's positions in Virginia. This year's gubernatorial candidate could have been, with only a nod of his head, Lieutenant Governor Henry Howell, 52, a friend of the new McGovern forces and a shrewd populist with a liberal stance on race and broad support from organized labor...
...prevent any future politicization of the nation's chief investigative agency, Senator Robert C. Byrd has submitted a bill that would limit the FBI director's term to seven years, make the bureau an independent agency and take it out from under the authority of the Attorney General...
AGASSIZ THEATER. Baroque chamber music for violin, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Music of Bach, Buxtehude, Rameau, and Byrd. Tickets: $2.50 (Benefit for Radcliffe Day-care Centers...