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Representative Robert F. Drinan, of the nearby fourth Congressional district, faces a strong challenge this year from Arthur Mason, a Republican lawyer from Brookline. Drinan was an early advocate of the impeachment of Richard Nixon, as well as a vocal opponent of the Vietnam War. He worked successfully for the abolition of the House Internal Security Committee, and since the end of the Vietnam and Nixon eras, Drinan has turned his attention to solving the local problems of high unemployment. Mason, although not as far to the right as many Republicans, advocates a standard Republican solution to unemployment--investment...
...even in a period when public activism of priests and nuns was at its peak, highlighted by the anti-war activities of such clerics as the Berrigan brothers and the Congressional election of Robert F. Drinan S.J. (D-Mass.), the ministers at Harvard encountered much resistance to their work...
Smokers' resistance might be a force to reckon with if Congress were ever to pass into law a prohibition, like a bill be fore a House committee, sponsored by Massachusetts' Robert F. Drinan, that would forbid smoking in most waiting and boarding areas, and restrict it in military bases and federal buildings. As the Spokane Chronicle's John J. Lemon said of a similar ordi nance that had been proposed in Washington State, "The next victims of such rule making may be whistlers, gum chewers, bone crackers, dandruff scratchers, lint pickers and popcorn...
...discussion of domestic issues, Drinan urged the public to express its disgust to Congress about current intelligence activities. He said the FBI has exceeded its power in opening 800,000 new investigatory files of which 20 per cent deal with "subversives or extremists...
Since his election to the 92nd Congress, Drinan has served on the House Judiciary Committee, and the House Government Operation Committee...