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...active McCarthy-Kennedy coalition has formed the Coalition for the New Politics which will work within the party to wrest control from the Doorley machine in Providence and the conservative organization at a state level. With Brown student Leonard O'Brien, chairman of Rhode Island Students for Kennedy, challenging a Doorley candidate in Providence this fall, the liberal move has begun. Leaders of the Coalition are state Sen. Mrs. Eleanor Slater and Newport councilman David Fenton. Sen. John O. Pastore can be expected to aid the old guard if the challenge becomes serious...
...order to bring about a new type of politics one must do more than mouth vague generalities, one must seize the decision-making process and consciously change it. In some states that means building up--precinct by precinct--an organization in order to wrest control. Then turn around and render it useless by changing the state election laws to permit open primaries in the place of party nominating conventions...
...than the office now affords, and freeing the Secretary and the President even more from the control of Congress. But this is just what McCarthy has been campaigning against. The President and the Secretary of State now have too much power in the setting of foreign policy. Bundy would wrest away what little authority Congress now has in this area by giving more fiscal power to the executive branch, including the power of tax--within limits of course, but limits that would probably be great enough to support a major escalation of any given...
...play some part in making revolutions, but they have drawn from the history of the Vietnam war exactly the opposite conclusion to the one the U.S. intends for them. The facts seem clear. Even with half a million men and enormous firepower the U.S. has not been able to wrest control of the countryside from the Viet Cong. To the revolutionaries this means simply that the U.S. can be beaten. No matter what happens in the future they will not lose this conviction...
...MONTH ago, the national press had all but written off Eugene McCarthy's bid to wrest the Democratic Presidential nomination from Lyndon Johnson. They said his campaign was not catching on, that he hadn't drawn the large-scale support from anti-war students that he had hoped...