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John Lindsay, campaigning in Florida, allowed as how he would pull out of the Presidential election if he didn’t do well in Florida and Wisconsin primaries. What did he mean by not doing well? Mr. Lindsay wouldn’t tell. . . . Poll of Jaycee convention in Florida same week gave Wallace 41 per cent of vote, Humphrey 19, Muskie 17, Jackson 12. . . . Other candidates, Muskie in particular, upset over George McGovern’s disclosure of his personal assets and announcement he will make public the names of campaign contributors by March 1. . . . Muskie sidestepped all questions on disclosing names of financial backers on Meet the Press a month ago. . . . However, Muskie (Mr. Clean of the current race) says he won’t be using billboards in his campaign because “they would be inconsistent with [my] long-held position on environmental controls.” (Well, a no-Muskie rule is one plus for the landscape, anyway.) . . . Socialist Workers Party is zeroing-in its attacks on McGovern (his sin: he persists in believing you can work within the two-party system) and is peddling a kit, “The Truth about McGovern,” for 25 cents a throw. . . . Communist Party Presidential candidate Gus Hall says within 48 hours after his inaugural he will order U.S. troops withdrawn from all over the world, shut down all but a handful of military bases in the U.S., padlock the Pentagon, CIA and the FBI, free Angela Davis and other political prisoners and order “an end to racism” by executive decree.

Interestingly enough, a Harris poll of Negroes on Angela Davis was inconclusive. On the question: Do you respect her? the answers were “a great deal” 35 per cent, “not a great deal” 21 per cent, “hardly respected at all” 14 per cent, “unsure” 30 per cent. . . . Huey Newton, Defense Minister of the Black Panthers, says the Panthers have now rejected the “pick up the gun now” philosophy in favor of working within the community. Newton attributes past Panther violence to the policies of Eldridge Cleaver, that “renegade, scab traitor.” … In Algiers, Cleaver has announced his resignation from international section of Black Panthers in order to join the Afro-American Liberation Army (whatever that is). . . . Timothy Leary, that other famous exile, has been bounced by the canton of Valois (which means, in effect expelled from Switzerland) because of his “deleterious example” to youth and his failure to get a valid residence visa.

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John Lindsay, campaigning in Florida, allowed as how he would pull out of the Presidential election if he didn’t do well in Florida and Wisconsin primaries. What did he mean by not doing well? Mr. Lindsay wouldn’t tell. . . . Poll of Jaycee convention in Florida same week gave Wallace 41 per cent of vote, Humphrey 19, Muskie 17, Jackson 12. . . . Other candidates, Muskie in particular, upset over George McGovern’s disclosure of his personal assets and announcement he will make public the names of campaign contributors by March 1. . . . Muskie sidestepped all questions on disclosing names of financial backers on Meet the Press a month ago. . . . However, Muskie (Mr. Clean of the current race) says he won’t be using billboards in his campaign because “they would be inconsistent with [my] long-held position on environmental controls.” (Well, a no-Muskie rule is one plus for the landscape, anyway.) . . . Socialist Workers Party is zeroing-in its attacks on McGovern (his sin: he persists in believing you can work within the two-party system) and is peddling a kit, “The Truth about McGovern,” for 25 cents a throw. . . . Communist Party Presidential candidate Gus Hall says within 48 hours after his inaugural he will order U.S. troops withdrawn from all over the world, shut down all but a handful of military bases in the U.S., padlock the Pentagon, CIA and the FBI, free Angela Davis and other political prisoners and order “an end to racism” by executive decree.

Interestingly enough, a Harris poll of Negroes on Angela Davis was inconclusive. On the question: Do you respect her? the answers were “a great deal” 35 per cent, “not a great deal” 21 per cent, “hardly respected at all” 14 per cent, “unsure” 30 per cent. . . . Huey Newton, Defense Minister of the Black Panthers, says the Panthers have now rejected the “pick up the gun now” philosophy in favor of working within the community. Newton attributes past Panther violence to the policies of Eldridge Cleaver, that “renegade, scab traitor.” … In Algiers, Cleaver has announced his resignation from international section of Black Panthers in order to join the Afro-American Liberation Army (whatever that is). . . . Timothy Leary, that other famous exile, has been bounced by the canton of Valois (which means, in effect expelled from Switzerland) because of his “deleterious example” to youth and his failure to get a valid residence visa.