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...permanent political organization has arisen from the ashes of the Hughes for Senate campaign. Calling itself Massachusetts Political Action for Peace (PAX), the group will function mostly as a pressure group, but also at times as an independent political party...
...main activity of PAX, according to a letter sent to Hughes supporters this month, will be to run candidates for Congressional and Senatorial posts, both within and outside of the two major parties. It will also submit bills to the state legislature and lobby both in the General Court and in Washington for "peace" bills...
...spokesman for PAX said yesterday that the group now intends to run at least six candidates for Congress in the 1964 elections. Hefner and Boardman plan to try again in the first and third districts respectively, and an attempt will probably be made to capture the Democratic nomination in the tenth district, now represented by former Republican House Speaker Joseph M. Martin...
Though Arab newspapers hailed the U.S. action as the creation of a "Pax Americana," the civil war was far from over, and the rival forces continued to broadcast grim communiques. From San'a came an unconfirmed report that the Imam's cousin, Prince Hassan, 31, had been killed in action. Not to be outdone, the royalists claimed the slaughter of precisely 888 rebels-including 88 Egyptians -in a two-day battle along the borders of northeastern Yemen...
Hughes' only comment yesterday was that the possibility of his candidacy is now "under consideration." Among the several groups which are willing to support him is Pax, a movement interested in peace-minded candidates and direct electoral action...