Word: clark
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Numerous political figures were present at the rally, including Rep. Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.), Democratic candidate for governor of New York, and senatorial candidates Ramsey Clark and Jacob K. Javits...
Even though he put a $100 ceiling on campaign contributions, Clark has raised an impressive $358,320, as compared with Javits' $680,000. So much money is unexpectedly coming in-from small contributors and conceivably from some big ones who have spread their funds among friends-that Clark has enlisted an additional ten volunteers just to count it and sort it out. He had originally planned no spot television commercials because he did not think it was "possible to discuss something in 30 seconds." But last week he changed his mind and started making tapes for the windup...
Feeling the pressure, Javits sharpened his attack last week by charging that Clark had been "exploited" by the Communists when he made his celebrated trip to Hanoi in 1972. At a press conference, Javits read a letter from a former P.O.W. stating that a tape made of Clark's remarks in Hanoi had been a "harmful blow to our morale." Clark, wrote the P.O.W., had encouraged prisoners in their "cooperation with the enemy in generating antiwar statements." Clark's position was especially "devastating" to those who had been put in solitary confinement and were trying to maintain their...
Javits faces not only the threat of Clark on his left but a Conservative Party candidate, Barbara Keating, 36, on his right. If he loses enough votes at both ends of the political spectrum, he could be in serious trouble even though he continues to lead Clark by a few percentage points...
...three agencies that sponsored study - the President's Council on Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development - carefully avoid advocating one type of development over another. Indeed says Edwin Clark, the CEQ economist who organized the study, "a lot of people still think that low-density housing is environmentally and socially preferable to the alternatives." But by laying out the relative costs of the various developments, the report allows planners, politicians and citizens to make intelligent choices about how their communities should grow...