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Musical chairs: now that Rep. James Roosevelt has announced that he intends to run against Sam Yorty for mayor of Los Angeles, Californians expect Pierre Salinger to make a public play for Roosevelt’s congressional seat. . . . Another Roosevelt, Franklin D. Jr., taking a cue from Bobby Kennedy, reportedly is thinking of moving to West Virginia in order to run for the Senate from there (New York being senatorially overcrowded these days). Roosevelt, one of the earliest JFK backers in 1960, undoubtedly reasons that ifheisto hold any political office in the Age of Lyndon it will have to be elective. . . . Rewarded: Rep. Phil Landrum (D., Ga.) got the coveted seat on the House Ways and Means Committee he was denied two years ago. Landrum, whose Liberal credentials were shredded when he cosponsored the Landrum-Griffin labor law, regained his spurs by heroic work on Lyndon Johnson’s anti-poverty bill last summer.

South Africa is taking no chances: faced with distinct possibility of a worldwide arms embargo, it is setting up two aircraft factories, one to build military jets, the second to build commercial planes. . . . James Ochwatta, a Kenyan civil servant and self-proclaimed bishop, is now engaged in recruiting ex-Mau Mau terrorists (black mercenaries?) to beef up rebel forces in the Congo. Ochwatta reports the situation in the Congo has deteriorated alarmingly because of the “massacres by white fascists.”. . .Another reason for the deterioration, according to some Congolese rebels who have fled to the Sudan, is that Pres. Gbenye absconded with gold he had collected for payment to his troops. . . . Interesting statistic: the 35 members of the Organization of African Unity, a powerful UN bloc, pay exactly 1.7 per cent of the annual UN budget (when they pay).

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Musical chairs: now that Rep. James Roosevelt has announced that he intends to run against Sam Yorty for mayor of Los Angeles, Californians expect Pierre Salinger to make a public play for Roosevelt’s congressional seat. . . . Another Roosevelt, Franklin D. Jr., taking a cue from Bobby Kennedy, reportedly is thinking of moving to West Virginia in order to run for the Senate from there (New York being senatorially overcrowded these days). Roosevelt, one of the earliest JFK backers in 1960, undoubtedly reasons that ifheisto hold any political office in the Age of Lyndon it will have to be elective. . . . Rewarded: Rep. Phil Landrum (D., Ga.) got the coveted seat on the House Ways and Means Committee he was denied two years ago. Landrum, whose Liberal credentials were shredded when he cosponsored the Landrum-Griffin labor law, regained his spurs by heroic work on Lyndon Johnson’s anti-poverty bill last summer.

South Africa is taking no chances: faced with distinct possibility of a worldwide arms embargo, it is setting up two aircraft factories, one to build military jets, the second to build commercial planes. . . . James Ochwatta, a Kenyan civil servant and self-proclaimed bishop, is now engaged in recruiting ex-Mau Mau terrorists (black mercenaries?) to beef up rebel forces in the Congo. Ochwatta reports the situation in the Congo has deteriorated alarmingly because of the “massacres by white fascists.”. . .Another reason for the deterioration, according to some Congolese rebels who have fled to the Sudan, is that Pres. Gbenye absconded with gold he had collected for payment to his troops. . . . Interesting statistic: the 35 members of the Organization of African Unity, a powerful UN bloc, pay exactly 1.7 per cent of the annual UN budget (when they pay).