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...legislative assistant to Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14, a special assistant in the Defense Department's internal security division and a special assistant in the State Department during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He was also a foreign affairs adviser to the 1968 presidential campaigns of George Romney and Nelson A. Rockefeller...
...blamed if it falters in the months ahead. Both men have been quietly campaigning for months. Chaban-Delmas, the mayor of Bordeaux, has been looking to his power base in the south, while the sophisticated Giscard has tried to show he is a man of the people, a la Nelson Rockefeller, by playing soccer and even squeezing out a tune in public on the accordion. So far, however, Pompidou has shown no desire to step down until his term expires in 1976. "My succession is not open," he angrily told his Cabinet late last year. "My health is my affair...
That provision was opposed not only by oil-state Senators like Louisiana's Russell Long but also by many liberals who considered the plan unworkable. The environmentalists, led by Wisconsin Democrat Gay lord Nelson, were aghast at another provision that would have delayed until 1979 the imposition of "clean air" standards for factories and power plants that are shifting from oil to coal. All sides felt freer to drop or at least delay the bill because of the easing of oil supplies. Said Nelson: "We are not in an emergency situation right...
...students of Columbia University in New York the walls may be tumbling down under the pressure of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's new narcotic laws. In early December, right before Christmas break, five Columbia students were arrested for allegedly dealing drugs; two for reportedly dealing cocaine and three for reportedly dealing marijuana. Under New York State's draconian narcotics laws, which went into effect last September 1, the two students charged with dealing cocaine face sentences from life imprisonment to no less than 15 years, and the other three students charged with dealing marijuana face sentences up to 15 years...
...date, no serious G.O.P. opposition has emerged to challenge such Democratic incumbents as California's Senator Alan Cranston, Wisconsin's Senator Gaylord Nelson, Illinois' Senator Adlai E. Stevenson III or Minnesota's Governor Wendell R. Anderson. Only a month before Minnesota's precinct caucuses are to be held, the G.O.P. has no gubernatorial candidate on the horizon. The Democrats are having no such problems. Says Norbert R. Dreiling, the party's state chairman in Kansas: "People who were reluctant to run as sacrificial lambs are now begging for a spot on the ticket...