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That Georges is still on the road at all is something of a surprise. He was the campaign manager for De Gaulle's re-election last December, in which De Gaulle was forced into a humiliating runoff, and even then managed only 55% of the vote against Socialist François Mitterrand. Afterward, De Gaulle brought back into his Cabinet his first Premier, Michel Debré, a hint to some that Pompidou was on the way down. Not so. As Finance Minister, Debre has had to take orders from Pompidou-and take the blame for the government...
Amerson, 32, a onetime Army paratrooper and father of two, was forced into last week's runoff for Macon County sheriff when neither he nor white Incumbent Harvey Sadler won a majority in Alabama's May 3 Democratic primary. The county has the highest proportion of Negroes (84%) of any in the U.S., and Negroes hold a 7,000 to 2,000 voter registration advantage. Amerson's showdown victory was still a considerable accomplishment. Few men in the rural South are more powerful than the local sheriff, and the office is the most sacrosanct of white preserves...
Burns's first mistake was his unsubstantiated charge that former State Senator Scott Kelly, a rugged upcountry conservative who ran a strong third in the original Democratic primary, had offered to sell his support in the runoff for $500,000. Burns's idea was to discredit Kelly; instead, he got Kelly hopping mad. Attacking the Governor for what he called "the big lie," the bluff country boy took to the backwoods to support Burns's city-boy opponent, Miami Mayor Robert King High, 42. Still trying to undercut Kelly in the outback, Burns then raised the race...
...Alabama primary, Clark got a second chance to keep his job when Dallas County's segregation-minded Democratic executive committee threw out six ballot boxes for "irregularities." The objective was to deny moderate Wilson Baker, Selma's former Public Safety Director, a majority and force a runoff. The discarded boxes, all from Negro neighborhoods, gave Baker 1,412 votes, Clark...
Result: Baker wins, 8,994 to 7,537. No runoff necessary...