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■ A little hardening all around: Was it a coincidence that the only consulate general to be closed in a recently announced cutback in State and Defense installations abroad was at Goteborg, Sweden? . . . Liberal columnists notwithstanding, Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel did not get a visa to speak at the Princeton shindig hosted by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation last week. (Commented Mandel’s American lawyer Leonard Boudin: “It is inconceivable that the Justice Department under Ramsey Clark would have done this,” and he was right.) . . . A Pakistani student in England who last surfaced burning an American flag in front of the U.S. embassy in London did not get a visa to speak to a peacenik group in Detroit last week (and was outraged by such narrowmindedness). . . . Welcomed upon his return from a month-long study of the situation in Vietnam, Sir Robert Thompson, author of No Exit from Vietnam and architect of the successful British campaign in Malaya, to the White House. He conferred at length with President Nixon and high U.S. Army officials on the situation there. . . . Suggested to replace Henry Cabot Lodge in Paris, by Republican Rep. Clark McGregor (Minn.), former Rep. Walter Judd, an authority on matters both Far Eastern and Communist.

■ Republican hugger-muggers abuilding in New York and Ohio. N.Y.—John Lindsay lets it be known he will support Nelson Rockefeller only if Rockefeller ponies up the cash Lindsay wants for NYC; he even casts doubts on whether he will support Senator Charles Goodell, who went all the way with Lindsay last fall. It’s too early, says Lindsay. . . . Rocky letting his soreness at Goodell show through. He snapped at one student who was praising Goodell’s bugout stance in Vietnam: “I appointed him to the Senate and that’s how you know about him. So don’t give me that stuff about Sen. Goodell.” . . . It’s now official in Ohio: Robert Taft Jr. (who wobbles between Left and Right) will run for the Senate against Gov. James Rhodes, who can’t succeed himself. Taft’s entry means almost certainly that Cong. John Ashbrook will take himself out of the race; and probably that Cong. Buz Lukens will. . . . Good news from Chicago’s 13th CD, where conservative Philip Crane beat Democrat Ed Warman in a by-election to fill Don Rumsfeld’s congressional seat. Rumsfeld, who has swung left since moving to the OEO in Washington, never did give Crane a written endorsement.

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■ A little hardening all around: Was it a coincidence that the only consulate general to be closed in a recently announced cutback in State and Defense installations abroad was at Goteborg, Sweden? . . . Liberal columnists notwithstanding, Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel did not get a visa to speak at the Princeton shindig hosted by the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation last week. (Commented Mandel’s American lawyer Leonard Boudin: “It is inconceivable that the Justice Department under Ramsey Clark would have done this,” and he was right.) . . . A Pakistani student in England who last surfaced burning an American flag in front of the U.S. embassy in London did not get a visa to speak to a peacenik group in Detroit last week (and was outraged by such narrowmindedness). . . . Welcomed upon his return from a month-long study of the situation in Vietnam, Sir Robert Thompson, author of No Exit from Vietnam and architect of the successful British campaign in Malaya, to the White House. He conferred at length with President Nixon and high U.S. Army officials on the situation there. . . . Suggested to replace Henry Cabot Lodge in Paris, by Republican Rep. Clark McGregor (Minn.), former Rep. Walter Judd, an authority on matters both Far Eastern and Communist.

■ Republican hugger-muggers abuilding in New York and Ohio. N.Y.—John Lindsay lets it be known he will support Nelson Rockefeller only if Rockefeller ponies up the cash Lindsay wants for NYC; he even casts doubts on whether he will support Senator Charles Goodell, who went all the way with Lindsay last fall. It’s too early, says Lindsay. . . . Rocky letting his soreness at Goodell show through. He snapped at one student who was praising Goodell’s bugout stance in Vietnam: “I appointed him to the Senate and that’s how you know about him. So don’t give me that stuff about Sen. Goodell.” . . . It’s now official in Ohio: Robert Taft Jr. (who wobbles between Left and Right) will run for the Senate against Gov. James Rhodes, who can’t succeed himself. Taft’s entry means almost certainly that Cong. John Ashbrook will take himself out of the race; and probably that Cong. Buz Lukens will. . . . Good news from Chicago’s 13th CD, where conservative Philip Crane beat Democrat Ed Warman in a by-election to fill Don Rumsfeld’s congressional seat. Rumsfeld, who has swung left since moving to the OEO in Washington, never did give Crane a written endorsement.