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The riots in Lima and Caracas weren’t the first shock for Vice President Nixon on his South American tour. In Buenos Aires, spokesmen for the American colony there (about 3,500 Americans) petitioned for one Senator and one Representative in Congress to represent the 600,000 Americans who live outside the continental U. S. A. . . . Look for increased activity soon on behalf of State Senate Majority Leader Walter J. Mahoney, best bet of conservative New Yorkers for the Republican gubernatorial nomination. … Senator Javits of New York is sponsoring a bill, supplemental to the Administration’s Trade Agreements Extension Act, which would authorize the Federal Government to “adopt” businesses that have been hurt by the free trade policy, and to put both management and employees on federal dole. … Friends of retiring Senator H. Alexander Smith of New Jersey are trying to promote for him a special foreign-policy or White House post.

The hush-hush “Bilderberg Society,” mysterious plaything of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands and a large coterie of international eggheads, met secretly in Rome last autumn. Its ’’executive committee” met this spring, in The Hague. As usual, nobody knows what it’s up to, or why. . . . The President’s foreign aid program is being quietly wrecked by a group of Senators from both parties, who point out that in delegating to the executive branch all decisions on programs and projects, the Senate actually denies itself any advance information on what foreign aid will be spent for. And after the money is spent the executive branch classifies the information, as in the Laos case.

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