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■ Twenty-one of 25 Democratic senators up for re-election this year will get labor support: the AFL-CIO COPE certifies them as “liberal on labor and social issues.” Republicans must knock off seven Democrats (and lose no seats) to take over control of the Senate. Particularly high with organized labor, Birch Bayh (who led the anti-Haynsworth fight), George McGovern and Edmund Muskie, potential Democratic standard- bearers in 1972, Frank Moss (Utah), Philip Hart (Mich.), Gale McGee (Wyo.). . . . Seats Republicans stand to lose include three now held by appointees: Charles Goodell’s in New York (he was appointed to replace Robert Kennedy); Ralph Smith (Ill.), appointed to replace Everett Dirksen; Theodore Stevens (Alaska), appointed to replace E. L. Bartlett. None is regarded as strong candidate. . . . Ninetieth Congress (first session) will be remembered, in personal terms, for: death of the flamboyant and effective Everett Dirksen; announcements by Stephen Young and John J. Williams (Mr. Incorruptible) that they would not run again; the disgrace and at least temporary political eclipse of Teddy Kennedy, who was the Democratic live wire in the Senate up to Chappaquiddick.

■ SDS New Left Notes, which disappeared during intraparty battles of last summer and fall, is back in business as biweekly, under the new name Fire! Editor Marion Delgado (of the Mark Rudd-Weatherman faction) says SDS is not just for a U.S. bugout in Vietnam: “We support the VC.” But more important, says Delgado, “the new mass movement is taking place in a totally different context—we’re moving toward armed struggle in this country.” . . . Also back in business, under a new name, Studies on the Left (which ceased publication two years ago as a result of a factional dispute). New name: Socialist Revolution.

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■ Twenty-one of 25 Democratic senators up for re-election this year will get labor support: the AFL-CIO COPE certifies them as “liberal on labor and social issues.” Republicans must knock off seven Democrats (and lose no seats) to take over control of the Senate. Particularly high with organized labor, Birch Bayh (who led the anti-Haynsworth fight), George McGovern and Edmund Muskie, potential Democratic standard- bearers in 1972, Frank Moss (Utah), Philip Hart (Mich.), Gale McGee (Wyo.). . . . Seats Republicans stand to lose include three now held by appointees: Charles Goodell’s in New York (he was appointed to replace Robert Kennedy); Ralph Smith (Ill.), appointed to replace Everett Dirksen; Theodore Stevens (Alaska), appointed to replace E. L. Bartlett. None is regarded as strong candidate. . . . Ninetieth Congress (first session) will be remembered, in personal terms, for: death of the flamboyant and effective Everett Dirksen; announcements by Stephen Young and John J. Williams (Mr. Incorruptible) that they would not run again; the disgrace and at least temporary political eclipse of Teddy Kennedy, who was the Democratic live wire in the Senate up to Chappaquiddick.

■ SDS New Left Notes, which disappeared during intraparty battles of last summer and fall, is back in business as biweekly, under the new name Fire! Editor Marion Delgado (of the Mark Rudd-Weatherman faction) says SDS is not just for a U.S. bugout in Vietnam: “We support the VC.” But more important, says Delgado, “the new mass movement is taking place in a totally different context—we’re moving toward armed struggle in this country.” . . . Also back in business, under a new name, Studies on the Left (which ceased publication two years ago as a result of a factional dispute). New name: Socialist Revolution.