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Rundown by American Conservative Union on how senators did prior to Aug. 1 recess. One Democrat (John Stennis, Miss.) rated 100 per cent; one Republican (Mark Hatfield, Ore.), zero. The four senators from Arizona and Nebraska (Goldwater, Fannin, Curtis, Hruska) scored 100; the four from Indiana and Wisconsin (Bayh, Hartke, Nelson, Proxmire) scored zero. Of the Republican class of ’70, two (Buckley, N.Y., Brock, Tenn.) got 100; two (Weicker, Conn., Roth, Del.) got 92; Beall (Md.), 82; Taft (Ohio), 73; Stevens (Alaska), 23 per cent. Of the leading Democratic Presidential candidates, most (Kennedy, McGovern, Hughes) got zero, but Humphrey rated 9, Muskie, 13, Henry Jackson, 67. The most split state: Utah, where Moss (D.) got a zero, Bennett (R.), 100 per cent. . . . Introduced just before the recess: legislation by Marlow Cook (R., Ky.) that would make it easier for companies with union contracts to go to four (ten-hour) day week. Present laws require overtime after eight hours’ work. . . . An amendment by Harry Byrd Jr. (D., Va.) to end the boycott on Rhodesian chrome, which had been tabled by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, breezed through the Armed Services Committee as an amendment to the military procurement bill. It is expected to pass the House.

How North Korean Premier Kim II Sung views President Nixon’s China visit: “Nixon’s visit to China will not be a march of a victor but a trip of the defeated, and it fully reflects the destiny of U.S. imperialism which is like a sun sinking in the western sky.” . . . How Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore sees it: “New demarcations of spheres of influence may become part of the Asian political landscapes. Some countries may be allowed to go neutral. Some may become pro-Communist.” . . . How North Vietnam sees it: For the first time Hanoi has invited envoys of a Trotskyist-dominated organization in the U.S.—Ruth Gage-Colby and James and Patricia Lafferty—to visit North Vietnam. They are all deeply involved in National Peace Action Coalition, which is dominated by the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. Significance: Hanoi wants all U.S. peace groups to unite under its political guidance, and the Socialist Workers Party showed its clout in the successful organizing of the April 24 peace demonstrations in Washington. . . . Chinese community of New York, which had planned anti-Peking rally in front of UN on Aug. 23, has called it off, in order to jibe its demonstration with nationwide anti-Peking entry in UN move in late September, about the time when General Assembly convenes.

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Rundown by American Conservative Union on how senators did prior to Aug. 1 recess. One Democrat (John Stennis, Miss.) rated 100 per cent; one Republican (Mark Hatfield, Ore.), zero. The four senators from Arizona and Nebraska (Goldwater, Fannin, Curtis, Hruska) scored 100; the four from Indiana and Wisconsin (Bayh, Hartke, Nelson, Proxmire) scored zero. Of the Republican class of ’70, two (Buckley, N.Y., Brock, Tenn.) got 100; two (Weicker, Conn., Roth, Del.) got 92; Beall (Md.), 82; Taft (Ohio), 73; Stevens (Alaska), 23 per cent. Of the leading Democratic Presidential candidates, most (Kennedy, McGovern, Hughes) got zero, but Humphrey rated 9, Muskie, 13, Henry Jackson, 67. The most split state: Utah, where Moss (D.) got a zero, Bennett (R.), 100 per cent. . . . Introduced just before the recess: legislation by Marlow Cook (R., Ky.) that would make it easier for companies with union contracts to go to four (ten-hour) day week. Present laws require overtime after eight hours’ work. . . . An amendment by Harry Byrd Jr. (D., Va.) to end the boycott on Rhodesian chrome, which had been tabled by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, breezed through the Armed Services Committee as an amendment to the military procurement bill. It is expected to pass the House.

How North Korean Premier Kim II Sung views President Nixon’s China visit: “Nixon’s visit to China will not be a march of a victor but a trip of the defeated, and it fully reflects the destiny of U.S. imperialism which is like a sun sinking in the western sky.” . . . How Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore sees it: “New demarcations of spheres of influence may become part of the Asian political landscapes. Some countries may be allowed to go neutral. Some may become pro-Communist.” . . . How North Vietnam sees it: For the first time Hanoi has invited envoys of a Trotskyist-dominated organization in the U.S.—Ruth Gage-Colby and James and Patricia Lafferty—to visit North Vietnam. They are all deeply involved in National Peace Action Coalition, which is dominated by the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party. Significance: Hanoi wants all U.S. peace groups to unite under its political guidance, and the Socialist Workers Party showed its clout in the successful organizing of the April 24 peace demonstrations in Washington. . . . Chinese community of New York, which had planned anti-Peking rally in front of UN on Aug. 23, has called it off, in order to jibe its demonstration with nationwide anti-Peking entry in UN move in late September, about the time when General Assembly convenes.