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New Left having its organizational troubles: for one thing Students for a Democratic Society is mad at Mobe (National Mobilization Committee)—they were the two major groups in the Chicago affair. At recent Kalamazoo meeting, SDS refused to join in anti-Inaugural hijinx now being planned by Mobe because, reports the Guardian, “of the fear that Mobe would again dominate the public political posture of the action while SDS members took it on the head from the cops.” SDS in its own New Left Notes put it even more bluntly: The SDS doesn’t want to be used as “cannon fodder” in Mobe operations…. Guardian columnist Stanley Aronowitz says the radical movement showed itself in the ‘68 elections to be “disorganized and lacking direction.” He calls for the formation of a new national non-Stalinist radical party…. Guardian’s favorite foreign correspondent, Australian Communist Wilfred Burchett, flew in to New York last week on hoked-up pretense that he would cover fortnight of UN session for a leftist French monthly. (It was only way he could get a visa.) It was rumored in Paris that he planned to make contact with Nixon aides on behalf of Hanoi…. Burchett, writing in Japanese Sankei, recently commented: “North Vietnam will continue the policy of not recognizing the existence of the South Vietnamese government and of overthrowing it.”… U. S. delegates at UN burning over reports that U Thant, who used to smoke good Burmese cigars, has switched to Havanas.

Sen. Roman Hruska says he doesn’t want blood all over the floor, but that he would like to be Minority Whip (to succeed lame duck Thomas Kuchel). His fight being managed by Senators Tower, Murphy and Baker (Baker is Everett Dirksen’s son-in-law). Likely compromise: Hruska will get Whip, his liberal opponent, Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, will be named chairman of Senate GOP Policy Committee, replacing Bourke Hickenlooper, who is retiring…. Senator McCarthy may have painted himself into a corner by his statement that he will not be a candidate for re-election to the Senate in ‘70. Hubert Humphrey has indicated he’d like to run for Clean Gene’s seat if Gene intends to vacate it…. Adam Clayton Powell surprising everyone in sight by predicting that “Nixon is going to surprise his financial supporters and become a great President.” Not so says Georgia legislator Julian Bond, who claims Negroes “will be lucky to survive” under a Nixon Administration…. Every columnist worth his salt has now suggested that Stephen Smith will run against John Lindsay next year.

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New Left having its organizational troubles: for one thing Students for a Democratic Society is mad at Mobe (National Mobilization Committee)—they were the two major groups in the Chicago affair. At recent Kalamazoo meeting, SDS refused to join in anti-Inaugural hijinx now being planned by Mobe because, reports the Guardian, “of the fear that Mobe would again dominate the public political posture of the action while SDS members took it on the head from the cops.” SDS in its own New Left Notes put it even more bluntly: The SDS doesn’t want to be used as “cannon fodder” in Mobe operations…. Guardian columnist Stanley Aronowitz says the radical movement showed itself in the ‘68 elections to be “disorganized and lacking direction.” He calls for the formation of a new national non-Stalinist radical party…. Guardian’s favorite foreign correspondent, Australian Communist Wilfred Burchett, flew in to New York last week on hoked-up pretense that he would cover fortnight of UN session for a leftist French monthly. (It was only way he could get a visa.) It was rumored in Paris that he planned to make contact with Nixon aides on behalf of Hanoi…. Burchett, writing in Japanese Sankei, recently commented: “North Vietnam will continue the policy of not recognizing the existence of the South Vietnamese government and of overthrowing it.”… U. S. delegates at UN burning over reports that U Thant, who used to smoke good Burmese cigars, has switched to Havanas.

Sen. Roman Hruska says he doesn’t want blood all over the floor, but that he would like to be Minority Whip (to succeed lame duck Thomas Kuchel). His fight being managed by Senators Tower, Murphy and Baker (Baker is Everett Dirksen’s son-in-law). Likely compromise: Hruska will get Whip, his liberal opponent, Sen. Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania, will be named chairman of Senate GOP Policy Committee, replacing Bourke Hickenlooper, who is retiring…. Senator McCarthy may have painted himself into a corner by his statement that he will not be a candidate for re-election to the Senate in ‘70. Hubert Humphrey has indicated he’d like to run for Clean Gene’s seat if Gene intends to vacate it…. Adam Clayton Powell surprising everyone in sight by predicting that “Nixon is going to surprise his financial supporters and become a great President.” Not so says Georgia legislator Julian Bond, who claims Negroes “will be lucky to survive” under a Nixon Administration…. Every columnist worth his salt has now suggested that Stephen Smith will run against John Lindsay next year.