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Abruptly, the erstwhile peace candidate announced that he was resigning his membership on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to allow the seating of Wyoming's Gale McGee, one of the Senate's most consistent hawks on the Viet Nam War. The move came on the heels of a Senate reorganization that pared down the number of committee members from...
EUGENE McCARTHY took another step yesterday into the realm of the enigmatic, surrendering his seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in order to make room for Wyoming's Gale McGee and indirectly--very indirectly--aid Chairman J. William Fullbright's efficiency schemes. McCarthy's action came as a small shock to his colleagues, including McGee himself. It no doubt also served to strengthen the impression held in not a few quarters that McCarthy has gone over the political deep...
...Defense Department insists that the Code of Conduct is "militarily binding." Most authorities, however, agree with a naval judge advocate, Captain Gale Krouse, who argued otherwise last week in San Diego. Pointing out that the Code of Conduct is not part of the U.C.M.J., Krouse said: "Failure to observe the guidelines of this executive order is not in my mind a criminal offense." In any event, finding a middle course between the needs of military discipline and compassion for the plight of prisoners of war will be a difficult job of legal navigation...
...Houston, 6 ft., 205 Ibs. The scouts are calling 1968 the Year of the Running Back. Reason No. 1 is Heisman Trophy Winner Simpson, everybody's All-Everything. The pros liken his bulling power, his marvelous moves and his explosive speed to a cross between Jim Brown and Gale Sayers. That means, as one scout says, that "he is the greatest college runner in 10-20-50 years-unbelievable!" Noting that OJ. ran the ball an average of 35 times a game this season, the scouts talk in awed tones about his "incredible durability." Reason...
Concludes Gale: "The more one studies the battles of biblical history the more convinced one becomes that the elements that make for military success or failure remain constant." The early Jews, of course, had unswerving faith in their destiny as God's chosen people-but it helped no little bit that they also had leaders who knew their way around a battlefield...