Word: drinan
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Successful political Candidates usually ascribe their victories to the wisdom of the voters. But not the Rev. Robert Drinan, the Jesuit who last week upset Congressman Philip Philbin, a 14-term House veteran, in the Massachusetts Democratic primary. "It was a miracle," said Drinan, who is on leave from his deanship at Boston College Law School. It was, however, something a lot more mundane that made Drinan almost a sure bet to become the first Catholic cleric in 145 years to go to Congress...
...outspoken dove, Drinan blended new technology and causes with the old techniques of ward politics. Fifty young campaign workers oversaw a house-by-house survey that reached 75% of the Democratic voters in his district that includes liberal Boston suburbs and rural upstate towns. The canvassers fed the householders' views on the issues into computers, then followed up with mailings. When an election-day rainstorm held the vote down, Drinan's staff assembled 250 student volunteers in an hour's time and put them to work driving the computer-identified faithful to the polls...
Vain Reminder. Drinan's well-honed campaign was made possible by the peace movement's decision not to hobble its effectiveness by splitting its votes among several dove candidates, as had happened in 1968. A "citizens' caucus" nominated Drinan, then threw money and volunteers behind him. Drinan, 49, conducted an expensive television campaign and was photographed with such prominent personalities as New York Mayor John Lindsay and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
Howard Zinn, professor of Government at Boston University, will speak at the meeting. After the speech, students will be canvassed to work for a wide spectrum of anti-war causes, ranging from the congressional campaign of the Rev. Robert Drinan, S.J., to the Boston Panther Defense Committee...
...liberals to talk at rallies, and support a "contest of ideas." On the other hand, a high school student whose baggy blue jeans sported a battered copy of the writings of Mao Tse-Tung, described how he had been kicked out of school for leafletting against the liberal Father Drinan. He was trying to show his young colleagues that liberals might not be all they thought them...