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Marvin ("Buddy") Mandel, 48, speaker of the house of delegates, state Democratic chairman and the man who most helped Agnew to govern successfully, has the inside track on replacing him. In fact, Agnew may even quietly urge Maryland's 33 G.O.P. legislators (v. 152 Democrats) to support Mandel, who helped him to enact income tax reform and an open-housing bill as well as to repeal Maryland's antimiscegenation law. A quiet veteran of 17 years in the legislature, Mandel appoints all house committees, signs all bills, and presides over its sessions with a composure that only rarely...
...impending donnybrook. Even Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Maryland native, has been suggested as a possibility, but the Kennedy brother-in-law categorically disclaims interest. There are few Maryland Democrats who can honestly do the same. House Majority Leader Tom Lowe, for instance, is a close friend of Mandel's, but admits: "If Marvin falls on his face, he'll have a size-ten shoe-mine-between his shoulder blades...
Using exhaustive Marxist analysis, Mandel claimed that the United States is no exception in the trend toward socialist revolution. It is merely lagging behind Western Europe and Japan, he said...
...Worthy of Louis XVI," Mandel termed the belittling comments toward student action in France. These "vanguard youth," he said, have been working constantly over the past five years, united in the struggle against "capitalist imperialism...
Banned from France for his revolutionary activities last spring, Mandel, editor of the leftist weekly "La Gauche," said the French general strike in May was possible only because of the "mass character" of the preceeding student demonstrations. The workers reacted with what he described as "an element of competition," and with the conviction "we can do it even on a broader scale...