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Supporters of a campaign to impeach President Nixon yesterday presented petitions containing 30,000 signatures to Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass...
...states had important guber-natorial contests. In New Jersey, Democrat Brendan T. Byrne lived up to pre-election predictions in swamping Rep. Charles W. Sandman by a two-to-one margin. Sandman got only the most nominal endorsement from incumbent Gov. William T. Cahill, whom he defeated in the Republican primary and no support whatsoever from Republican Sen. Clifford Case. In Virginia, Republican Miles E. Godwin edged liberal independent Henry E. Howell by less than one percentage point...
Meanwhile, Democrat Abraham Beame decisively won the four-way New York mayoralty race with more than 50 per cent of the vote. In Detroit, black State Rep. Coleman A. Young squeezed past an ex-police commissioner in a campaign that centered on the law-and-order issue. In Cleveland, the Republican Party held onto its mayor after a bizarre sequence of pre-election events concerning the Democratic candidate. In Minneapolis, the liberal Democratic-Farmer-Labor candidate upset the city's two-term conservative Republican incumbent...
...Former Rep. Louise Day Hicks completed a successful return to Boston politics last night, topping the field of candidates for Boston City Council...
...Rep. John H. Rousselot (R-Calif.) said last week that discussion among Congressmen regarding "how effective the president can now be is very evident, but one must realize how hard it is to bring the kind of pressure needed for resignation...