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...Connecticut Democratic peace candidate Rev. Joseph Duffey suffered from a split in his party and was defeated by Republican Rep. Lowell P. Weiker. Incumbent Senator Thomas Dodd, a Democrat running as an Independent, won 28 per cent of the vote, most of it in traditionally Democratic blue collar areas. The gubernatorial race, won by Republican Thomas Meskill with 54 per cent, also helped Weiker's effort...
CONNECTICUT: The bizarre career of incumbent Sen. Thomas J. Dood appears to be at an end. Running as an independent, Dodd is given little chance of winning. His only impact on the election will be to cut into the votes of the Democratic candidate, Rev. Joseph D. Duffey. Dodd, who has a liberal record on domestic matters but a mysteriously conservative stance on foreign policy, will benefit from his religion. He is a Roman Catholic in a heavily Catholic state. Duffey, a peace candidate and a backer of the 1968 Presidential bid of Gene McCarthy, is a Congregationalist minister...
...much Dodd cuts into Duffey's vote will determine whether the election is won by the Republican candidate, Rep. Lowell P. Weiker. Weiker is considered a moderate Republican, but supports the Nixon course in Indochina...
...Baby. In the Administration and on Capitol Hill, response was swift. Spiro Agnew asserted that "it's not our baby," and promised that "as long as Richard Nixon is President, Main Street is not going to turn into Smut Alley." Senator Thomas Dodd's Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency prepared to summon commission members for some sharp questioning about the panel's mandate. In the opinion of some angry Congressmen, the investigators had ignored their assigned tasks of defining obscenity and pornography, determining its effect on children, and proposing federal antismut laws. Other Congressmen began filling the hopper...
Candidates receiving UNAF assistance include Joseph P. Duffey, a Democrat seeking to wrest the Party's nomination from Sen. Thomas Dodd, George Rawlings, a Virginia Democrat seeking the seat now held by Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., and Andrew Young, a former aid to Martin Luther King, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to the House from Georgia's fifth district...