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Owens then asked for and was granted a suspension of the rules so that he could introduce a "compromise" resolution. Owens proposed that the Council select James Johnson as City Manager and strongly urge Johnson to hire Peterson as his Deputy City Manager...
...monitor the changeable voter mood this election year, TIME has commissioned Daniel Yankelovich Inc. to select and periodically interview members of a TIME Citizens Panel. The panel consists of 200 citizens chosen at random out of a carefully selected larger sample of 2,000 people who are a cross section of the national voting-age population. Here is the first of seven reports on the American mood this election year...
...speech to a select gathering of Texans at the south Texas ranch of Treasury Secretary John Connally, President Nixon said yesterday that "the South Vietnamese will be able to hold...provided the United States continues to furnish the air and naval support that we have been furnishing to stop this invasion...
...enlist the grass roots support necessary to make him a force at the Democratic National Convention. But last week McGovern continued to show surprising organizational strength as his enthusiastic, and mainly youthful, supporters dominated enough party caucuses in Idaho to win 45% of the district delegates, who will select the state's delegation to the National convention. Edmund Muskie got only 17.8% and Hubert Humphrey 5%. McGovern did almost as well in similar caucuses in Vermont, neighboring Muskie's Maine. He appeared to have won about 400 district delegates against nearly 250 for Muskie and only eight...
...city committees presently nominate people for one of the four election commissioners, and select delegates to the state gubernatorial conventions. The reform group hopes to further use ward committees to draft legislation, to lobby and to open channels between the city and its local government...