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Javits is a compulsive leader and ini tiator. Last week, breaking a longstanding rule of neutrality in primary contests, he sent a telegram of support to moderate Republican William J. Casey in his contest for New York's Nassau County congressional nomination against Goldwaterite Steven B. Derounian. "I can't even vote for Casey," said the Senator. "But when Goldwater said Casey was a phoney, I felt I had to make a statement...
...York's Nassau County, ex-OSS Officer and onetime Nixon Speechwriter William J. Casey is trying to make headway before the June 28 G.O.P. primary against favored Steven B. Derounian, a hard-lining Goldwater man, by calling for negotiations "at any time...
Rockefeller not only reached Michigan's George Romney, who was waiting on the second floor, he embraced him as the party's most promising national leader and potential savior. Addressing 2,400 Republicans at a $100-a-plate fund-raising dinner for the Nassau County G.O.P., Rocky noted that both Romney and New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits were on hand. "It's nice to have them here together," he said pointedly. "I find a growing feeling among Republicans that it might be nice to have them together in our future...
...Champagne Campaign." So the contenders are out in droves. Eugene Nickerson, 47, chief executive of Nassau County, was the first to enter the race, in February. Samuels, 46, and Roosevelt, 51, joined him last week. Samuels, an articulate campaigner brimming with reformist zeal, is known as "the Baggie king," after one of the products of his plastic-packaging firm. Defeated in the 1962 convention scramble, he has a pretty wife, eight attractive children,* and no reluctance to use them as political assets. Samuels stretched his announcement into a swinging two-day foray by chartered plane to Washington...
...Castro Call. Exiles in New York, Miami and Nassau only shrug at such gestures. Never at a loss for rumors, exiles were brimming with an entirely new crop last week, hinting at possible coup attempts inside Haiti and new guerrilla invasions. To help pave the way, "The Voice of Haitian International Union," an exile group, buys time on a New York short-wave radio station to beam a half-hour news and conversation program into Haiti six days a week, poking fun at Duvalier. Castro is also taking to the air waves. "Duvalier has signed his own death warrant," Havana...