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...campaign draws to a finale, the Bradley camp believes that Yorty has overdone his scare campaign. The theory has considerable validity. One recent poll showed that 27% of those opposing Yorty base their stand on his noxious campaign strategy...
...candidate, and was rewarded by a new public-opinion poll that, in a two-man race, gave him 56% of the vote to 44% for Pompidou-an extraordinary result in light of the fact that Poher has no party backing his candidacy and has only become widely known in recent weeks. Poher also repeated his attack on the government-run TV network, which has long and one-sidedly sung the praises of Gaullism. Said Poher: "This daily and insidious propaganda does not bring out the objective truth and reassure citizens." He promised, if elected, to see to it that...
...swore to take part in no meetings and to accept no more official invitations that might give him an advantage over the other candidates-with the single exception of appearing at the Cup of France soccer final, thus reviving a presidential tradition that De Gaulle had neglected in recent years. He also promised to tape his election speeches at the TV studios, thereby playing on the well-known fact that De Gaulle had made TV teams come to him in the Elysee Palace...
...suggested Columnist Tony Clifton in the Sunday Times of London, might a Russian reporter with a conspiratorial imagination interpret recent events in Britain. Clifton was taking a puckish poke at Kremlinologists in the West. Suspicious by trade, they have been agog with speculation and wild surmise about the deaths of twelve Russian generals within a recent 17-day period...
...public defender of Israel's interests as she sees them. She has never been more popular among Israelis, who admire her iron will, zest for long hours and hard work at the age of 71, and her blunt manner of speech. Those qualities were amply demonstrated in a recent interview with TIME Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and TIME Managing Editor Henry Grunwald...