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John W. Gardner’s Common Cause is billed as a nonpartisan “citizens’ lobby group.” But how nonpartisan? Nonpartisan enough so that there was one (1) Republican list only, among the scores used in its massive member-recruiting drive: the list of the superliberal Republican Ripon Society. Story came out when it was revealed that the Democratic National Committee was using Common Cause’s list in its current fund-raising fandango. . . . New Common Cause aides: 1) Sam Brown, Eugene McCarthy’s Children’s Crusade organizer, and co-chairman of the New Mobilization Committee that mounted the big November 15 Moratorium in Washington in 1969. And 2) John T. Conway, former executive assistant to Walter Reuther, who has been appointed president. . . . Stephen Schlesinger’s fact-packed New Democrat (a magazine founded to move the Democratic Party left), reports former Congressman Allard Lowenstein (he lost in Nov.) will succeed the Rev. Joseph Duffey as head of ADA (Duffey also lost in Nov., to Sen. Lowell Weicker). . . . Sen. Edmund Muskie spoke at a Duffey dinner in Connecticut a couple of weeks ago to raise funds to help pay off the campaign debt, and bombed. His speech, say attendees, was too long, too pedantic, no fun. . . . On conservative side, Maryland State Senator Bob Bauman (former YAF national chairman, present second vice chairman of ACU) has formally entered race for Rep. Rogers Morton’s former Maryland congressional seat, is given good chance against Morton’s candidate, William Mills. Mills has one thing going against him in Republican primary: he was a registered Democrat until November 1970. . . . Another early YAFer, M. Stanton Evans, editor of Indianapolis News and regular NR columnist (“At Home,” NR Bulletin), has been named chairman of ACU, replacing Congressman John Ashbrook (R., Ohio). . . . YAF is mounting a drive on eight hundred college campuses against the “People’s Peace Treaty” that is being circulated by the National Student Association. “People’s Peace Treaty” was signed in Hanoi by NSA president David Ifshin just before Christmas, and follows the Hanoi line all the way. . . . A couple of statistics you may not read elsewhere: In first fortnight of Laos drive, North Vietnam lost enough rice to feed 37 battalions for a month, lost eight hundred tons of ammunition, enough heavy weapons to supply three battalions.

Jones, Toronto Telegram Ben Roth Agency

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John W. Gardner’s Common Cause is billed as a nonpartisan “citizens’ lobby group.” But how nonpartisan? Nonpartisan enough so that there was one (1) Republican list only, among the scores used in its massive member-recruiting drive: the list of the superliberal Republican Ripon Society. Story came out when it was revealed that the Democratic National Committee was using Common Cause’s list in its current fund-raising fandango. . . . New Common Cause aides: 1) Sam Brown, Eugene McCarthy’s Children’s Crusade organizer, and co-chairman of the New Mobilization Committee that mounted the big November 15 Moratorium in Washington in 1969. And 2) John T. Conway, former executive assistant to Walter Reuther, who has been appointed president. . . . Stephen Schlesinger’s fact-packed New Democrat (a magazine founded to move the Democratic Party left), reports former Congressman Allard Lowenstein (he lost in Nov.) will succeed the Rev. Joseph Duffey as head of ADA (Duffey also lost in Nov., to Sen. Lowell Weicker). . . . Sen. Edmund Muskie spoke at a Duffey dinner in Connecticut a couple of weeks ago to raise funds to help pay off the campaign debt, and bombed. His speech, say attendees, was too long, too pedantic, no fun. . . . On conservative side, Maryland State Senator Bob Bauman (former YAF national chairman, present second vice chairman of ACU) has formally entered race for Rep. Rogers Morton’s former Maryland congressional seat, is given good chance against Morton’s candidate, William Mills. Mills has one thing going against him in Republican primary: he was a registered Democrat until November 1970. . . . Another early YAFer, M. Stanton Evans, editor of Indianapolis News and regular NR columnist (“At Home,” NR Bulletin), has been named chairman of ACU, replacing Congressman John Ashbrook (R., Ohio). . . . YAF is mounting a drive on eight hundred college campuses against the “People’s Peace Treaty” that is being circulated by the National Student Association. “People’s Peace Treaty” was signed in Hanoi by NSA president David Ifshin just before Christmas, and follows the Hanoi line all the way. . . . A couple of statistics you may not read elsewhere: In first fortnight of Laos drive, North Vietnam lost enough rice to feed 37 battalions for a month, lost eight hundred tons of ammunition, enough heavy weapons to supply three battalions.

Jones, Toronto Telegram Ben Roth Agency