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Drinan's staff was predicting victory over Congressman Philip J. Philbin, vice-chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Republican challenger John McGlennon. McGlennon was showing surprising strength in the three-way contest, capturing many of the anti-Drinan votes that might have given Philbin another term...
VIRGINIA: Following the breakup of the traditional Byrd machine, a three-way Senate race developed between the incumbent, Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr.; George Rawlings, a liberal Democrat; and Ray Garland, a conservative Republican. The result will determine both who holds the reigns of power in the state and in the once-omnipotent Democratic party...
...Democrats, decimated by a brutal three-way gubernatorial primary, have nominated George F. Rawlings, a northern Virginia lawyer with a history of fighting the seemingly hopeless liberal fight in a staunchly conservative state. But the primary vote-which was less than half of the 1969 tally-demonstrated that conservative Democrats had abandoned the party to support Byrd or become Republicans...
Several Senators weighed in with variations aimed at making Bayh's proposal more palatable. North Carolina's Sam Ervin was willing to drop electors but not electoral votes. The Ervin plan would eliminate the danger inherent in human electors: that their votes can be bartered in a three-way race in which no candidate wins a majority...
DESPITE the dire prophecies of violence, Chile remained calm last week in the wake of precedent-shattering elections. In a three-way race for the presidency, the Marxist candidate, Dr. Salvador Allende, had received the highest vote, polling 36% v. 35% for his rightist opponent, former President Jorge Alessandri, and 28% for the candidate of President Eduardo Frei's Christian Democratic Party, Radomiro Tomic. Since no candidate won a popular majority, the Chilean Congress must decide between Allende and Alessandri on Oct. 24. In the meantime, just about everyone in Chile was acting as if Allende had already become...