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...active aid of antiwar student volunteers. How much they helped or hurt is uncertain. College-age campaign workers were more successful in a Democratic House primary in the Oakland-Berkeley area, where they worked for Ronald Dellums, a black member of Berkeley's city council. But Jeffery Cohelan, the incumbent whom Dellums beat, is himself an antiwar liberal, making the victory a dubious one for the campus activists...
...Democrat Jeffrey Cohelan of California said, "Right now, we're holding on. It will be several years before we're able to start moving again...
...contributions, supports a staff of 26, many of whom are political activists as well as ardent journalists. Managing Editor Robert Scheer ran for Congress in the Democratic primary last year on a New Left platform calling for unilateral withdrawal from Viet Nam. He lost, but he gave Incumbent Jeffery Cohelan a rough fight. Keating himself ran unsuccessfully in a congressional primary in San Mateo County...
Scheer swept all the Negro communities, although none of the established Negro leaders endorsed him. "I said Watts was a good thing, you know, and the people in the black ghettoes know that. None of them give a good goddamn how Cohelan votes on civil rights laws. They know you don't get action until you make trouble...
...national movement -- want to test their theory by running a candidate for Thomas Kuchel's Senate seat in 1968. Whether the candidate will be Scheer himself or Simon Casady, the ousted CDC president, has not been determined. Scheer says he might also like another crack at Jeffrey Cohelan's House seat...