Word: oregon
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...OREGON 60% of the vote GOVERNOR McCall 193,000 Straub (D) 152,000 U.S. SENATOR Hatfield (R) 184,000 Duncan...
...Oregon's race for a U.S. Senate seat is the nation's only major contest in which the central issue is the Viet Nam war. The campaign-like the conflict itself-has seesawed to and fro. Last week handsome, two-term Republican Governor Mark O. Hatfield, 44, who has expressed grave misgivings about the Administration's conduct of the war, and Democratic Representative Robert Duncan, 45, a snuff-dipping ex-seaman who stands foursquare in favor of the President's policies, were running almost dead even. A check by Pollster John Kraft showed Duncan with...
...also skirted the war as an issue, though elsewhere he has urged a bigger effort. The decisive factor may be that Hatfield is a familiar, popular figure throughout the state, whereas Bob Duncan until recently was little known outside his district. Lyndon Johnson plans to cut a swath through Oregon on Duncan's behalf three days before the election...
...their written consent before using the lie box. In private industry, labor arbitrators usually bar firing when evidence of wrongdoing is based solely on lie-detector tests or refusal to take them. New laws also forbid the tests as a condition of employment in six states (Alaska, California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington). J. Edgar Hoover calls the name lie detector "a complete misnomer" because the gaugers are totally incapable of "absolute judgments." And the current state of the art suggests that Texans and others had best not rely on polygraphs to solve their crime problems...
Rebelling a Bit. Thus, though many members were preoccupied by Viet Nam, the war did not dominate the 1966 session. Indeed, save for the fulminations of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman William Fulbright and Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse, there was almost no meaningful opposition in Congress to the Administration's Asian policy. Yet, concerned by spiraling war costs and mounting resistance to civil rights legislation, many Democrats openly questioned the propriety of many new domestic programs...