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Most expected, but some surprises in ADA rating of senators for first session 89th Congress. Rating 100 per cent: Democrats Douglas of Illinois, Hart of Michigan, Clark of Pennsylvania ; three states, both of whose senators get ADA zero: Mississippi (Eastland and Stennis), South Carolina (Thurmond and Russell), Virginia (Byrd and Robertson) . Highest score for a Republican went to New Jersey’s Clifford Case (94). One unexpected angle: California’s ’’Liberal” Republican senator Thomas Kuchel, a bugaboo to most conservatives, racked up only 41 per cent on ADA tally while anti-Communist Sen. Thomas Dodd (D. , Conn.) scored lofty 94 per cent (like the Kennedy Bros.) on seventeen key votes, only one of which, however, had to do with foreign policy. Democratic Senate leader Mike Mansfield (Mont. ) racked up 76 per cent to Minority leader Everett Dirksen’s 6 per cent. . . . Late Nov. special election in Vermont (due to court-ordered reapportionment) swept Republicans back into power: they gained 115 of 150 House seats, 24 of 30 Senate seats. The results, commented Democratic Gov. Philip Hoff, were “horrendous.”. . . Final official accounting in NYC mayoral race indicates that John Lindsay spent $2.6 million, Abraham Beame $2.2 million, Wm. F. Buckley Jr., $245,000.

You reads your papers and you takes your choice: Tokyo’s Asahi reports Indonesian Communist leader D. N. Aidit was shot and killed while escaping from a prison in Surakarta; Karya Bhakti, a Jakarta daily, says he fell in a skirmish with government forces near Mt. Merapi in central Java. . . . Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio, regarded as Communist-leaning in recent months, last week denounced the Indonesian CP for the attempted Oct. I coup. . . . Missing on the Indonesian scene since that time: all that Crush Malaysia talk. . . . Philippine President-elect Marcos says his country will send 2,000 fighting men to Vietnam shortly after he assumes office.

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Most expected, but some surprises in ADA rating of senators for first session 89th Congress. Rating 100 per cent: Democrats Douglas of Illinois, Hart of Michigan, Clark of Pennsylvania ; three states, both of whose senators get ADA zero: Mississippi (Eastland and Stennis), South Carolina (Thurmond and Russell), Virginia (Byrd and Robertson) . Highest score for a Republican went to New Jersey’s Clifford Case (94). One unexpected angle: California’s ’’Liberal” Republican senator Thomas Kuchel, a bugaboo to most conservatives, racked up only 41 per cent on ADA tally while anti-Communist Sen. Thomas Dodd (D. , Conn.) scored lofty 94 per cent (like the Kennedy Bros.) on seventeen key votes, only one of which, however, had to do with foreign policy. Democratic Senate leader Mike Mansfield (Mont. ) racked up 76 per cent to Minority leader Everett Dirksen’s 6 per cent. . . . Late Nov. special election in Vermont (due to court-ordered reapportionment) swept Republicans back into power: they gained 115 of 150 House seats, 24 of 30 Senate seats. The results, commented Democratic Gov. Philip Hoff, were “horrendous.”. . . Final official accounting in NYC mayoral race indicates that John Lindsay spent $2.6 million, Abraham Beame $2.2 million, Wm. F. Buckley Jr., $245,000.

You reads your papers and you takes your choice: Tokyo’s Asahi reports Indonesian Communist leader D. N. Aidit was shot and killed while escaping from a prison in Surakarta; Karya Bhakti, a Jakarta daily, says he fell in a skirmish with government forces near Mt. Merapi in central Java. . . . Indonesian Foreign Minister Subandrio, regarded as Communist-leaning in recent months, last week denounced the Indonesian CP for the attempted Oct. I coup. . . . Missing on the Indonesian scene since that time: all that Crush Malaysia talk. . . . Philippine President-elect Marcos says his country will send 2,000 fighting men to Vietnam shortly after he assumes office.