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Voting against Gerald Ford nomination in the House Judiciary Committee were the nine hardline leftists: three members of the Black Caucus, John Conyers (Mich.), Charles Rangel (N.Y.), Barbara Jordan (Tex.); Californians Don Edwards and Jerome Waldie; Robert Kastenmeier (Wis.); the Rev. Rep. Robert Drinan (Mass.); and Elizabeth Holtzman (N.Y.)—all Democrats. Democrat Jack Brooks (Tex.), who voted to confirm, commented, “If Ford does become President he will be a vast improvement over the one we’ve got.” . . . Idea that Ford might become President has set the nation’s cartoonists to weeping. “I haven’t got a good likeness yet,” says Don Wright (Miami News); “if he becomes President life is going to be hell.” A sentiment echoed by Robert Pryor (N.Y. Times), Pat Oliphant (Denver Post), Jeff MacNelly (Richmond News Leader). . . . On the Watergate front, the Executive Board of the NAACP, having reopened the question of impeachment, took the moderate course, put the question over to full board on January 7. . . . Not so the radical International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (IUE) which has come out not only for impeachment but disbarment as well. . . . Hard Left planning major Dump Nixon rallies in thirty cities Dec. 15. Spokesman for organizing group, the Revolutionary Union (RU), admits, somewhat incautiously, that they don’t want to dump Nixon too fast, “we want to keep the crisis going.” . . . It’s the opinion of Sen. Howard Baker (R., Tenn.) that the Ervin Committee may never resume its hearings on Watergate, and the opinion of Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that the Watergate grand juries will be ready to decide on indictments shortly after the New Year.

AAA, having toted it up, reports there were 22 per cent fewer fatalities on the highways over Thanksgiving weekend this year than last: 528 died this year as against 679 in ’72. . . . The Air Force, which had shut down production lines for the controversial C-5A cargo plane, may open them up again: Without the C-5A, the emergency airlift to Israel in October would have been much more difficult if not impossible. … In Europe, the outgoing Danish government reported last week it was thinking of buying 70,000 barrels of oil from the Soviet Union at $30 a barrel, more than three times the current world price. . . . Red China has offered to sell some of its oil surplus to Thailand, according to Communist World (price unspecified). . . . France, which is not hurting for gas itself, reports a falloff in sales of French cars to West Germany of 30 per cent, to the Netherlands of 50 per cent. … In Greece, cars with odd number license plates can roll one Sunday, cars with even numbers the next. . . . And in Rome tourists on Dec. 2 were entranced by the topcoated, capped, and be-scarfed gentleman who was driving his Roman chariot and two snow white horses around and around and around the Colosseum.

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Voting against Gerald Ford nomination in the House Judiciary Committee were the nine hardline leftists: three members of the Black Caucus, John Conyers (Mich.), Charles Rangel (N.Y.), Barbara Jordan (Tex.); Californians Don Edwards and Jerome Waldie; Robert Kastenmeier (Wis.); the Rev. Rep. Robert Drinan (Mass.); and Elizabeth Holtzman (N.Y.)—all Democrats. Democrat Jack Brooks (Tex.), who voted to confirm, commented, “If Ford does become President he will be a vast improvement over the one we’ve got.” . . . Idea that Ford might become President has set the nation’s cartoonists to weeping. “I haven’t got a good likeness yet,” says Don Wright (Miami News); “if he becomes President life is going to be hell.” A sentiment echoed by Robert Pryor (N.Y. Times), Pat Oliphant (Denver Post), Jeff MacNelly (Richmond News Leader). . . . On the Watergate front, the Executive Board of the NAACP, having reopened the question of impeachment, took the moderate course, put the question over to full board on January 7. . . . Not so the radical International Union of Electrical Radio and Machine Workers (IUE) which has come out not only for impeachment but disbarment as well. . . . Hard Left planning major Dump Nixon rallies in thirty cities Dec. 15. Spokesman for organizing group, the Revolutionary Union (RU), admits, somewhat incautiously, that they don’t want to dump Nixon too fast, “we want to keep the crisis going.” . . . It’s the opinion of Sen. Howard Baker (R., Tenn.) that the Ervin Committee may never resume its hearings on Watergate, and the opinion of Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski that the Watergate grand juries will be ready to decide on indictments shortly after the New Year.

AAA, having toted it up, reports there were 22 per cent fewer fatalities on the highways over Thanksgiving weekend this year than last: 528 died this year as against 679 in ’72. . . . The Air Force, which had shut down production lines for the controversial C-5A cargo plane, may open them up again: Without the C-5A, the emergency airlift to Israel in October would have been much more difficult if not impossible. … In Europe, the outgoing Danish government reported last week it was thinking of buying 70,000 barrels of oil from the Soviet Union at $30 a barrel, more than three times the current world price. . . . Red China has offered to sell some of its oil surplus to Thailand, according to Communist World (price unspecified). . . . France, which is not hurting for gas itself, reports a falloff in sales of French cars to West Germany of 30 per cent, to the Netherlands of 50 per cent. … In Greece, cars with odd number license plates can roll one Sunday, cars with even numbers the next. . . . And in Rome tourists on Dec. 2 were entranced by the topcoated, capped, and be-scarfed gentleman who was driving his Roman chariot and two snow white horses around and around and around the Colosseum.