Word: drinan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since June, White's campaign has been organized by John Marttila, the 30-year-old professional campaign manager who led Fr. Robert F. Drinan to victory last year...
...other issue on which Rizzo capitalized was Green's campaign. During the last week or so, Green brought in outside liberals to support his candidacy. Such Congressmen as Father Drinan and Abner Mikva came, as did Senator John Tunney of California. Allard Lowenstein and Ramsey Clark endorsed Green. So did Ted Kennedy. ("The Green family and the Kennedy family have always been very close," Teddy said in TV spots.) But Rizzo told the voters that he didn't need outside help, and that they didn't either...
Green's campaign was very well organized and very professional. His manager was John Martila, the man who masterminded Father Drinan's successful campaign. He attacked Rizzo on the law-and-order issue, nothing that last year, while Rizzo was police commissioner, crime rose in Philadelphia by 243 per cent, equal to four times the national average for cities over 250,000. He also attacked Rizzo's claim that the drug problem is no worse now than it was ten years ago, and he questioned Rizzo's view that organized crime is not involved in the drug trade...
More than this, these children are owed reparations like the other war victims. Congressman Drinan has proposed reparations for the Vietnamese people. The U.S. Government has established benefits for GI's or for their surviving families. The nation owes these American children what it gives the acknowledged orphans of American...
Among those Congressmen were Bella S. Abzug (D-N.Y.). Shirley Chisolm (D-N.Y.). Ron Dellums (D-Calif.), and Father Robert Drinan (D-Mass.). Twenty-five Congressmen also signed a statement offering the vets their offices overnight in the event of a police eviction...