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Despite the cloud of conflicting claims, British voters seem to have made up their minds on the issue. In February of 1974 when Wilson first proposed the unprecedented referendum (Parliament had,.after all, legally and officially approved the treaty to join Europe), the anti-Marketeers enjoyed a 58%-to-28% majority, with an important 14% undecided. Since last March, however, pollsters have reported an amazingly consistent 2 to 1 majority in favor of continued membership. The latest Gallup poll showed 61% intending to vote yes, 29% no and only 10% undecided. Most political analysts see the turnabout as a sign...
...Saigon, the posters and painted slogans of the defunct Thieu regime had disappeared, swept away by a massive cleanup campaign. Other remnants of capitalism, like advertising posters and bright neon signs, were expected to go next. The cloud of exhaust smoke that customarily hovered over Saigon was gone, a result of the city's gasoline shortage. There were far more bicycles on the street than before, even though their price had quadrupled. Black pajamas, the customary clothing of the Viet Cong guerrillas, doubled in price...
...within his party for the tact and loyalty he demonstrated as national chairman in the worst days of Watergate. A third candidate is Herman, who won his organizational spurs by deftly moving the 1972 G.O.P. National Convention to Miami Beach from San Diego, where it had fallen under the cloud of the ITT contribution scandal...
...Stanley Cloud, Washington correspondent, TIME...
...pending against dozens of public servants, including former U.S. Senator Edward Gurney. Sadly, the judiciary offers Florida's citizens no comfort: the seven-man supreme court has been hit hardest by the scandals. Last week the third justice in little more than a year quit under a cloud, and a fourth may face impeachment. It was by far the worst series of court disgraces since 1965, when four members of the nine-judge Oklahoma supreme court were implicated in fixes and bribes...