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FOR THE RECORD > m How did they vote on the Consular Accord? Four of five GOP freshmen senators (Baker of Tenn., Griffin of Mich., Hatfield of Ore., and Percy of Ill.) voted for it. Edward Brooke of Mass. would have made it five, but was out of town, on junket to Southeast Asia. (Percy voted for Treaty although his mail had run 7,000 to 46 against). . On additional $12.2 billion for Vietnam war, the only Senate dis- senters were Wayne Morse of Ore., Ernest Gruening of Alaska, Gaylord Nelson of Wis. In the House, the dis- senters were: Reps. Brown, Burton and Edwards (Edwards is ADA chairman) of Cal., Conyers of Mich., Fraser of Minn., Kastenmeier and Reuss of Wis., — and Dow and Fitts Ryan of N.Y. Only Republican in either House to vote against appropriation was Rep. Charles Mosher of Ohio. . . . Only two Repub- lican candidates last year to receive donations from super-dove Council for a Livable World were Mark Hatfield ($5,000) and Edward Brooke ($2,500). gm Chuck Hollander, of the National Students Association, explained to Swarthmore audience last week that NSA accepted CIA funds in the *50s because CIA wanted American stu- dents at international student confer- ences who represented “a more liberal view than the hard line of the Ameri- can Administration during the period.” Hollander emphasized that “a signifi- cant portion of the CIA is more liberal than its public image.” . . . Grand- standing by cartoonist Jules Feiffer, _ critics Dwight Macdonald and Anthony West—they led a pacifist-type walkout at National Book Awards recently be- cause Hubert Humphrey was_ the -speaker—not popular with their fellow authors and critics. . nificance in fact that Off Broadway production of bitterly anti-Johnson MacBird! has cut all references to Robert McNamara? SecDef part in . . What is sig- play is taken by an anonymous LBJ lackey who makes war on “Vietland.” . . Mario Savio, who was sentenced to 90 days for his latest Berkeley sit-in, has fired his lawyer, Melvin Belli of Jack Ruby fame. . . . A spokesman for Bertrand Russell war tribunal in- sists that James Baldwin has joined U.S. sponsors David Dellinger and Stokely Carmichael. Carmichael once denied he had agreed to sponsorship, but Vietnik press continues to list him as Russellite. . . . Raymond Momboisse, a lawyer with Cal. Dept of Justice, Mansbridge—Daily Sketch Ben Roth Agency “With deGaulle in again we ought to get a taller loaf.” claims recent rioters are more experi- enced than police who had to handle them. Momboisse says there are at — least four training schools for demon- strators in California. gm About that terrorism: Official U.S. figures show the Vietcong have killed 11,967 civilians and kidnaped 40,988 in nine years of undeclared war… . Defense Department estimates that 23,000 tons of supplies and equipment were moved south by the North Viet- namese during the three-day Chinese New Year truce. Pentagon calls it “the largest logistic resupply ever detected.” . France and Italy are negotiating for sale of jet-fuel refineries to Red China, some of which fuel will, pre- sumably, end up in North Vietnamese _ meeting, MiGs. On the island of Java, 250,000 Chinese have changed their names, adopting Javanese equivalents. Chinese community suffered mightily in anti-Communist purge in Indonesia in 1965. m Some Robert Kennedy associates fear left-ideologues in his entourage are moving too fast for Kennedy’s own good in their broadside attacks on LBJ. The ideologues have taken initiative away from professional politicians who did so much to get JFK elected… . Efforts by Cal. Republicans to bring Sen. Thomas Kuchel and _ Ronald Reagan together at recent Washington meeting only moderately successful. Reagan (whose gubernatorial campaign was not supported by Kuchel) said he would back the liberal Republican if he got the nomination—but that he would not take sides in any primary battle. Return of Henry Cabot Lodge to states worrying Romney- Percy-Rockefeller backers who _ fear Lodge may further muddy up already murky political waters. Trend toward conservative control of Conn. ~ Republican Party—started with the resignation of liberal chairman Searle Pinney—continued last week when conservatives elected Dwight Mayer chairman of Conn. Young Republicans in bitterly and closely contested elec- tion. . . . Adam Clayton Powell found his Bimini commitments too urgent last week to permit him, as he had prom- ised, to journey to Chicago to join Dick Gregory for Mayor (by write-in) campaign. Election is April 4. Instead, Powell sent Gregory some taped en- dorsements. wm Out of it: Alabama’s gubernatorial consort, George Wallace. While Pres. Johnson briefed governors on his Guam Ladybird entertained their wives at lunch. No place had been set for George.

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