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After he was elected mayor of New York City as a fusion candidate of the Republican and Liberal parties in 1965, John Vliet Lindsay pledged a nonpartisan administration. Republican Nelson Rockefeller could have used some cam paign support from the mayor in last year's gubernatorial race, but Lindsay blandly observed that his office was above politics and for the most part kept his silence...
Part 2 of "Animal Rescue Squad" takes viewers on an animal ambulance ride, into an ASPCA hospital, and then travels back in history to the nineteenth century, when there was no organized cam paign against cruelty to animals...
...press conference of their own to ex plain what went wrong. Far from being sabotage, the dustup at Dong Ha, said Thieu, was only a wartime snafu. And the person most responsible for the foul-up was not a government official; he was the chairman of the central cam paign committee, whom the civilian candidates themselves had appointed. The chairman had failed to give the province chief the correct information. But even though the reception committee found itself at the wrong airstrip, Thieu continued, it rushed to Dong Ha once it got the word. If the candidates had waited only...
...Viet Nam, the civilian candidates for a while threatened to refuse to cam paign until the government gave new guarantees for their safety and travel...
...provinces, the Viet Cong have been ordered to attack candidates, raid election stations, destroy ballot boxes and pressure peasants to boycott the polls. During last September's elections for the Constituent Assembly, the V.C. assassinated 37 candidates and cam paign workers. Since the presidential election is far more important, this time they are aiming higher...