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Still, pro-Kennedy efforts in a number of crucial primary states were going forward. In New Hampshire, which has the earliest of regular primaries and thus a disproportionate say in presidential selection, half a dozen scattered Draft Ted efforts have been pulled together. Dudley Dudley, a member of the Governor's executive council and a leader of the movement, claims she will not be dissuaded even if Kennedy strongly vows his unavailability. Says she: "This is a draft movement, and the nature of a draft is to persuade a reluctant candidate he must run." Polls in the Granite State...
...happen that way for a number of good reasons. One is that last week's election results could not be simplistically interpreted as a rejection of Francophone rights and ambitions. Another is that Levesque's Parti Québecois government, after 2½ mixed years in office, seems to be losing credibility with the voters. A third is that no more than 20% of Quebeckers favor outright independence for the province...
There is evidence that a growing number of Iranians are becoming annoyed by Khomeini's brand of Islamic extremism...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had already decided to send three new emissaries to southern Africa. One will concentrate on the problem of Namibia (South West Africa), another will be dispatched to a number of African capitals to discuss the Rhodesian question. The third, Assistant Under Secretary Derek Day, will go to Salisbury in an effort, as Lord Carrington put it, to develop "the closest possible contacts with Bishop Muzorewa and his colleagues." This fact-finding mission will probably last until after the opening of the Commonwealth Conference in Lusaka, Zambia, in early August, thereby relieving the Thatcher government...
...agreement in the academy that if any new young humor writer writes us and sends along some of his material-no matter how good it is-we write him back and say, 'You don't have it, kid. Go into advertising.' " Still, there are a number of rising and risible newspaper humorists out there clamoring for attention. Among them...