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It looks more and more as if Teddy’s in the race. Evans and Novak say the “Big Three” are Muskie, Humphrey and Kennedy. The AFL-CIO’s man on the Hill, Andrew Biemiller, recently told a number of union leaders: “If anybody thinks Ted Kennedy is not running for President, they’re nuts.” . . . Monday, the hard-hitting newsletter of the Republican National Committee, points to all the ex-Kennedy aides who’ve endorsed or taken jobs with the McGovern campaign (Walinsky and Goodwin, in the Speechwriting Dept., Frank Mankiewicz) and concludes: “The McGovern for President Committee is rapidly becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edward M. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc.” . . . And it’s been a bad month, all in all, for Edmund Muskie. In May he was telling leading New York Democrats that his pre-convention campaign would be costing “at least $10 million.” By last week, Berl Bernhard, his campaign director said he thought a $1 million budget for 1971 would be easier to meet than an originally much higher figure. . . . Birch Bayh, for one, says he’s not going along with the Muskie proposal that the Democratic hopefuls restrain their pre-convention campaign spending. Says Bayh: This would give Muskie an advantage since he got national exposure when he ran for the Vice Presidency. . . . Also bad news, the fact that Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington has formally opened his campaign headquarters in Washington. Jackson says he thinks the other front-runners are off base in concentrating on Vietnam; where Nixon is vulnerable, he says, is on the domestic economic issues.Is Nixon winding down the war? American servicemen killed in Vietnam in the first three months of 1968, 4,869. In the first three months of 1971, 633…. The largest Protestant denomination in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, voted down a statement declaring there were “moral ambiguities” in the Vietnam war, went on to commend the President for reducing American troops in Southeast Asia. . . . Fun and games, Rennie Davis has called meeting of his People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice (the group that put on the Mayday demonstrations) for Milwaukee, June 25 to 27. It will meet at St. Michael’s Church and School—that’s Father Groppi’s church—and plan its fall peace activities. . . . Jerry Gordon, a key man in the Trotskyist-dominated National Peace Action Coalition, is off on a nationwide speaking tour to drum up interest in peace demonstrations in New York over the Fourth of July weekend. Under discussion: plans to disrupt return of the holiday crowds.

Catholic Charities reports that it, alone, is feeding half a million Bengali refugees in India; the bishop in charge says the conditions among the refugees are the worst he has seen in a quarter of a century of relief work. Latest figures are that nearly six million East Pakistanis—most of them Hindus—have fled the reign of terror of President Yahya Khan. … A recent Gallup poll of world leaders who were asked: “Who is the most admired person in the world?” came up with Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Others, in order, Willy Brandt, Mrs. Golda Meir, Pope Paul and U Thant. . . . Simas Kudirka, the Lithuanian sailor who made the mistake of trying to escape via a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, has been sent to the Potmalabor camp to serve out his ten-year sentence. That was the prison where authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were held. . . . East European reports indicate Antonin Novotny (the man Dubcek replaced) is back in the Czech Communist Party after a couple of years in disgrace. Novotny, led the Stalinist faction that ruled Czechoslovakia until 1968, ordered the trial and execution of Rudolf Slansky. . . . Incidentally, Slan-sky’s wife and son, whose civil rights were restored in the late Fifties, are reported to have been stripped of their CP membership, refused permission to work

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It looks more and more as if Teddy’s in the race. Evans and Novak say the “Big Three” are Muskie, Humphrey and Kennedy. The AFL-CIO’s man on the Hill, Andrew Biemiller, recently told a number of union leaders: “If anybody thinks Ted Kennedy is not running for President, they’re nuts.” . . . Monday, the hard-hitting newsletter of the Republican National Committee, points to all the ex-Kennedy aides who’ve endorsed or taken jobs with the McGovern campaign (Walinsky and Goodwin, in the Speechwriting Dept., Frank Mankiewicz) and concludes: “The McGovern for President Committee is rapidly becoming a wholly-owned subsidiary of Edward M. Kennedy Enterprises, Inc.” . . . And it’s been a bad month, all in all, for Edmund Muskie. In May he was telling leading New York Democrats that his pre-convention campaign would be costing “at least $10 million.” By last week, Berl Bernhard, his campaign director said he thought a $1 million budget for 1971 would be easier to meet than an originally much higher figure. . . . Birch Bayh, for one, says he’s not going along with the Muskie proposal that the Democratic hopefuls restrain their pre-convention campaign spending. Says Bayh: This would give Muskie an advantage since he got national exposure when he ran for the Vice Presidency. . . . Also bad news, the fact that Sen. Henry Jackson of Washington has formally opened his campaign headquarters in Washington. Jackson says he thinks the other front-runners are off base in concentrating on Vietnam; where Nixon is vulnerable, he says, is on the domestic economic issues.Is Nixon winding down the war? American servicemen killed in Vietnam in the first three months of 1968, 4,869. In the first three months of 1971, 633…. The largest Protestant denomination in the country, the Southern Baptist Convention, voted down a statement declaring there were “moral ambiguities” in the Vietnam war, went on to commend the President for reducing American troops in Southeast Asia. . . . Fun and games, Rennie Davis has called meeting of his People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice (the group that put on the Mayday demonstrations) for Milwaukee, June 25 to 27. It will meet at St. Michael’s Church and School—that’s Father Groppi’s church—and plan its fall peace activities. . . . Jerry Gordon, a key man in the Trotskyist-dominated National Peace Action Coalition, is off on a nationwide speaking tour to drum up interest in peace demonstrations in New York over the Fourth of July weekend. Under discussion: plans to disrupt return of the holiday crowds.

Catholic Charities reports that it, alone, is feeding half a million Bengali refugees in India; the bishop in charge says the conditions among the refugees are the worst he has seen in a quarter of a century of relief work. Latest figures are that nearly six million East Pakistanis—most of them Hindus—have fled the reign of terror of President Yahya Khan. … A recent Gallup poll of world leaders who were asked: “Who is the most admired person in the world?” came up with Mrs. Indira Gandhi. Others, in order, Willy Brandt, Mrs. Golda Meir, Pope Paul and U Thant. . . . Simas Kudirka, the Lithuanian sailor who made the mistake of trying to escape via a U.S. Coast Guard vessel, has been sent to the Potmalabor camp to serve out his ten-year sentence. That was the prison where authors Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel were held. . . . East European reports indicate Antonin Novotny (the man Dubcek replaced) is back in the Czech Communist Party after a couple of years in disgrace. Novotny, led the Stalinist faction that ruled Czechoslovakia until 1968, ordered the trial and execution of Rudolf Slansky. . . . Incidentally, Slan-sky’s wife and son, whose civil rights were restored in the late Fifties, are reported to have been stripped of their CP membership, refused permission to work