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Rockefeller had brought Goldberg to a boil by charging that his foe had promised a $70,000-a-year job to a leading New York Democrat in exchange for a Goldberg endorsement. Clearly startled by the fury of Goldberg's reply, Rockefeller said, "I did not mean it in a disparaging or derogatory...
CALIFORNIA. The most populous state seems certain to remain the preserve of Republican Ronald Reagan, who has outcharmed, outfoxed and outspent his dogged Democratic foe, longtime speaker of the California assembly, and until he shed 100 Ibs., the "Big Daddy" of California politics, Jess Unruh. Four years ago, Reagan saddled the Democrats with the responsibility for tumult on the campuses, and the saddle-despite four years of Reagan rule-remains firmly affixed to his foes. Although he is way ahead, Reagan warns.his confident supporters that "I don't want to be the Tom Dewey of 1970"-and hits hard...
Murphy stresses "what is good about America," criticizes Tunney's opposition to a bill allowing FBI agents to investigate campus bombings, links his foe to radical-liberal causes and individuals. Still hawkish, Murphy assures his audiences: "The war is going great." Murphy's age is a handicap, as is his admission that he was on Technicolor Inc.'s payroll while serving in the Senate. Head to head, Tunney probably would win. Republicans hope Reagan's ample coattails will drag his old showbiz pal along...
White liberals in the target nations, particularly South Africa, were anguished. "This is no way to make a contribution to the solution of the problem of racialism," said Helen Suzman, the South African Parliament's fiercest foe of apartheid. Methodist Leader Tom Parker despaired of support for such action by followers of "a Saviour who spilt no drop of blood but his own." W.C.C. member churches in South Africa all opposed the grants but decided not to quit the council. Prime Minister B.J. Vorster then warned darkly of "government action" if they did not. Last week the white Presbyterian...
...Nixon proposal to double the U.S. contribution to the World Bank's soft-loan fund, from $160 million to $320 million a year. If that measure passes, the diversion to multilateral aid will take a large step forward. Opposition to all such expenditures is widespread. Friend and foe alike, however, will be attracted by one aspect of the Nixon proposals: a substantial cut in the 17,344 full-time and temporary employees of AID. Says one White House official of the employees of the agencies replacing AID: "Think in terms of hundreds rather than thousands...