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Cool Relations. Party reform will hardly satisfy Southerners victimized by a draconian plan to resettle 4 million city dwellers in "new economic zones" in the Mekong Delta. According to a new five-year plan, Southerners from the cities will be recruited to reclaim 1 million hectares of rice land and to increase fish and lumber production...
...father Anton told him to leave behind "that pen you got when you left the eighth grade-one of your brothers can use it." Perpich became a dentist and was elected in 1962 to the state senate, where he pushed mining companies to pay more state taxes and reclaim pit-mined land. Predicted Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "We're in for some surprises...
...Democrats?New York's brassy Bella Abzug and Hawaii's pert Patsy Mink?gave up their seats in unsuccessful attempts to win Senate nominations. Abzug will be replaced by New York City Councilman Theodore S. Weiss, 48, who rejected suggestions that he vacate his Democratic nomination and let Abzug reclaim her old job. Mink's successor is Democrat Daniel Akaka, 51, a former aide to Hawaii's Governor George Ariyoshi...
...Atlantic. Much of it has been stirred by the belief that the rights of man are as universal as Jefferson has said. Thomas Paine of the Pennsylvania Magazine has published an article arguing that the slave, "who is proper owner of his freedom, has a right to reclaim it, however often sold." Adds Dr. Benjamin Rush, a leader of a Philadelphia antislavery movement: "The plant of liberty is of so tender a nature, that it cannot thrive long in the neighborhood of slavery...
...description of his use of the Senate as majority leader is perhaps the most enlightening passage, painting a littleseen picture of the wheeler-dealer at his best. For the first time we are shown Johnson's pathological obsession with Bobby Kennedy, a man who Johnson believed lived only to reclaim the Kennedy throne. We find out Johnson feared that Bobby Kennedy would attack him for being "unmanly" and for betraying the John Kennedy tradition if he pulled out of Vietnam. And, in what is getting to be the classic test case of whether a president of the United States...