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...numerous lawsuits have blocked nuclear construction, for many Americans still have a visceral fear of an accidental atomic explosion (which is impossible) or of what Alaska Senator Mike Gravel calls "the ultimate pollutant"-lethal, long-lived radiation...
...with warmth and affection, but there is a woeful absence of the fiery spontaneity that greets a Wallace or a Kennedy or even, sometimes, a McGovern. An integral fixture of the national Humphrey campaign has been the potbellied union leaders who could double as precinct bosses. Their rye-and-gravel voices and center-city accents prompted some newsmen following Humphrey to invent a mythical character named Augie. Introducing Humphrey to union crowds, California Labor Chieftain Joe Mazzola likes to tell his audiences: "This man speaks nuttin' but the trut'." He then sternly admonishes the workers: "Get off your...
...lobbyists concentrated both on persuading Congressmen to co-sponsor the Drinan-Gravel Resolution--which is still frozen in committee-- and on urging undecided, or "swing," senators to vote down the Byrd Amendment to the pending Case-Church Amendment. The Byrd Amendment makes cutoff of Congressional funds contingent upon a ceasefire agreement, and lobbyists felt it greatly weakened the original move. But Washington did some lobbying of its own. Tuesday morning Administration officials, including Presidential Adviser Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, met with selected "swing" Senators. Tuesday afternoon the Byrd Amendment passed...
...congressman, asked his opinion on the Drinan-Gravel resolution, told his constituent, "I'm on a different committee--I don't deal with National Interests...
...during the 1970 Cambodia strike. It is a broad-based and locally-oriented action intended to give people throughout the country an opportunity to talk about the war, to picket draft boards, to hold town meetings. Among those who are supporting the moratorium are Rep. Shirley Chisholm, Sen. Mike Gravel, NPAC and the Black Caucus...