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...nation's major oil companies, this balance rapidly shifted. Today, rural counties account for only about 30 per cent of the vote in Texas, but these districts are still considered "swing" areas. "They've always been solidly Democratic, but in recent years, especially in (former U.S. Senator) Ralph Yarborough's case, there's been some migration," explained John C. White, state Commissioner of Agriculture and co-chairman of the Texas McGovern-Shriver campaign. "Like the people in the urban areas, they're not as concerned as they should be about farm programs and rural development programs...
...Congress when a special commission put forth her favorite proposal: a $6 billion investment in cancer research during the coming decade and creation of a new, NASA-type National Cancer Authority outside the NIH to oversee the search for a cure. Senator Edward Kennedy, who succeeded Texas' Ralph Yarborough as chairman of the Senate subcommittee on health, put his own imprimatur on the commission's proposal and submitted the recommendations as legislation...
...neither party having won a clear victory. "The object of that campaign was not to bring us together, but to defeat 15 Democratic Senators. On the national level we didas well as we expected, and not as well as we hoped. But any election where we defeat [Senators] Gore, Yarborough, Goodell and Tydings can't be all that...
Included in this lame duck Congress are five Senate doves who have nothing to lose by leading a filibuster to show their colleagues and the President that the cry for no business as usual applies most directly to them; Goodell, Tydings, Gore, McCarthy and Yarborough have already put their Senate seats on the line in opposition to the war. Dramatic opposition to the President when it can be so effective is only consistent with their higher goals...
...chairman of the board knows bureaucracy well: he struggled for seven years as a middle-level official in the Agency for International Development (AID) a renowned citadel of red tape, and served previously in the U.S. Army (as captain) and the Congress (as an aide to Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough). Now head of a private business and educational consulting firm in Virginia, he funds NATAPROBU's $3,000-a-year budget from his own pocket. "Some people putter in the garden," says Boren, "some jog around the neighborhood; I orchestrate NATAPROBU...