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Jackson is also well organized and expects to do nicely in Pennsylvania on April 27, because of Milton Shapp's decision to withdraw from the race. Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, who could control 30 votes at the convention, probably will announce his support of Jackson soon. Carter and Udall also are setting up extensive efforts in Pennsylvania. Then, on May 1, Carter hopes to make a splashy showing in Texas. Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a favorite son, has tightly organized the state. But Carter is challenging Bentsen in every district and plans a high-powered drive to win as many...
Last fall, after hearing Vice President Nelson Rockefeller discuss the subject with concern, Senator Barry Goldwater told newsmen that Soviet agents had infiltrated the offices of seven Senators. In the ensuing furor, 52 Congressmen endorsed a letter asking Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence Activities, to look into the charges. Church, in turn, asked the FBI to investigate...
...result, Birch Bayh effectively dropped out of the race. The other liberal candidates-Fred Harris, Sargent Shriver and Milton Shapp-stayed in the running for the present but no longer have realistic expectations of winning many delegates. Even though the liberals seemed to be coalescing around Udall, Idaho Senator Frank Church still planned to enter some of the later primaries, with the goal of picking up enough votes to become a force at the convention...
...coalesce around Udall's campaign. Says Ethan Geto, one of Bayh's New York leaders: "Based on some early soundings, the majority sentiment [among Bayh's delegate slates] so far is clearly for Mo Udall." Other liberals are planning to abandon Sargent Shriver and Senator Frank Church -due to enter the presidential race next week-to go with Udall. Having grabbed the liberal banner and proclaimed himself "the only horse to ride," Udall has already started to concentrate his efforts on wooing the minorities and the more conservative blue-collar and labor Democrats in New York...
...away from classes. Now local officials are moving to force recalcitrant parents into line. This week the first boycotting parents to go on trial before a jury will appear in a special court created last November. The charge: contributing to the truancy of their children. Says Juvenile Court Prosecutor Frank Burke Jr.: "We'll have more than 1,000 cases before it's all over...