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...Third District vote counted, the Rev. Robert F. Drinan S.J., a Jesuit priest running as an antiwar Democrat, held a 5000-vote lead over his Republican opponent, John McGlennon, who has campaigned on a law and order platform. Drinan's opponent in the Democratic primary, hawkish incumbent Philip J. Philbin, trailed badly in his write-in campaign...
Drinan's staff was predicting victory over Congressman Philip J. Philbin, vice-chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Republican challenger John McGlennon. McGlennon was showing surprising strength in the three-way contest, capturing many of the anti-Drinan votes that might have given Philbin another term...
...victory was largely due to support given him by the peace forces in his district. Last February 1,000 "New Politics" people from the district gathered in convention and chose Drinan to oppose Philbin, the second-ranking Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee and a supporter of the war and high military spending. During the campaign and on election day, some 4,000 volunteers helped the Drinan cause...
Father Drinan is opposed in the November election by Republican State Representative John McGlennon. McGlennon is a supporter of the Nixon Vietnam policies and won his primary by a margin of better than 3-1. Father Drinan is also threatened by a Philbin write-in candidacy. Declaring last week that he would not allow himself to be thrown out of Congress by the "New Left," with its money and power, Philbin announced that he would seek re-election...
...district is overwhelmingly Democratic and Independent, with approximately 100,000 Independents, 80,000 Democrats and 40,000 Republicans. Drinan has a very good chance of winning, but his supporters are not over-confident and they are taking the combined Philbin-McGlennon threat very seriously...