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Behind Harel's attacks, Mapai Party spokesmen thought they saw the hand of his old boss, David Ben-Gurion, who last year broke with Eshkol and formed the opposition Rafi Party. Gleeful Rafi men expected to pick up some support from disenchanted Mapai members and hoped eventually to unseat Eshkol. Last week they were spreading rumors that Mapai intended to replace Eshkol with either Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir or former Foreign Minister Golda Meir...
...California Republicans, cheered by a poll showing Ronald Reagan well ahead in his race to unseat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, dropped $300,000 into the party coffers at a Los Angeles lovefest. Though the affair's main speaker was ex-Californian Richard M. Nixon, Reagan earlier announced that he did not need campaign help from outside the state-a message clearly meant to dissociate himself further from Barry Goldwater. "This campaign is for the people of California," said Reagan, "and I personally would like to keep it that...
...military, and he read it off in a monotone. Then, for a few moments, he discarded it entirely and pleaded for his job. He admitted that Congress could call elections to decide whether he remained President for life, or President at all, but said it had no right to unseat him by itself. "For almost 40 years I have dedicated myself to the service of freedom," said the Bung, clutching the microphone stand. "I continue praying to Allah to be given the strength to continue serving the nation...
What concerns Barzel is public opinion. The opposition Social Democrats have grabbed the initiative from the C.D.U. and harvested potential voting strength by accepting an East German invitation to a speakers' exchange. As a result, the Social Democrats are given a fighting chance to unseat the Christian Democratic state government in the July 10 elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, where nearly a third of West Germany's voters live. "These things have to be said," Barzel maintained last week. "My feet are firmly planted." What he meant is that they have to be said by a Christian Democrat...
...voted in significant numbers in Mississippi. Also for the first time, Eastland will face substantial opposition in the general election. Representative Prentiss Walker, a leader of the newly vitalized state G.O.P., has made no bid for the Negro vote; yet many Negroes may vote for him, if only to unseat Eastland...