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...same time over 500 members of a group calling itself the Federal Government Employees Against the War began a three-hour rally in Lafayette Park opposite the White House and listened to Representative Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.) and others denounce President Nixon's handling...
...Paul McCloskey, who has said he will challenge Nixon in the Republican Presidential primaries, reports that since 1968 American bombing has produced 500,000 refugees in Laos alone. The use of massive and repeated air strikes by B-52's, the creation of free-fire zones (in which anything that moves is regarded as fair game), and the chemical defoliation of millions of acres of South Vietnamese and Laotian jungles and croplands, have caused massive disruptions in the social fabric of South east Asia...
John Corwin and Bob Gippin, the first-year Law students who wrote and distributed the petition, said yesterday that they plan to contact a sympathetic member of the House-possibly Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.) or Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.)-to have the petition introduced in Congress as a bill...
...Better. It is still too early to assess McCloskey's chances of mounting an effective primary campaign. Money is a problem, although such diverse financial angels as New York Philanthropist Stewart Mott, California's Norton Simon and Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton have expressed interest in his campaign. He has received more than 30,000 letters of support from across the country, but realistically admits that it will take a much greater groundswell to put him across...
...McCloskey still hopes that the President will change his mind on Viet Nam, that he will get out more quickly, that he will "come up with a startling new initiative." He would also prefer that someone else make the run. But as to his determination there is little doubt. "You're damned right you'll see me up in New Hampshire next year," he says. "If Nixon doesn't change and no one else better does it, I'll be there. I like those mountains...