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■ Significant and/ or interesting political developments of the week: Los Angeles Times’ unexpected endorsement of Ronald Reagan over Jess Unruh “as clearly the better qualified to guide [California] through the four difficult years ahead.” . . . Detroit News poll shows Lenore Romney way way back of Sen. Phil Hart at this moment. He got 60 per cent of vote against her 23 per cent. Part of trouble is intra-party bitterness coming out of Lenore’s primary campaign against conservative Robert Huber. . . . Situation in Washington all mixed up. As result of primary, Democratic hawk Henry Jackson will be facing Republican dove Charles Elicker in November. Elicker has come out against Safeguard, other Administration defense measures that Jackson has helped push through Congress. . . . New York ADA has made its choice: it’s Richard Ottinger over Charles Goodell for senator, but Goodell, the Republican, got half as many votes as Ottinger. . . . Very liberal N.Y. GOP congressman Ogden Reid (Westchester) says he is running an “independent” campaign this year, which means, in fact, that he’s not supporting Goodell. Reasons (since they are ideologically simpatico) could be a) that Reid hoped he would have been appointed to the Senate seat Goodell now occupies and b) the smell of defeat about the Goodell enterprise. . . . Goodell, incidentally, is the ranking Republican on just-released ADA rating of the 91st Congress. He got 95 per cent score; tied for second (among Republicans), Edward Brooke and Clifford Case (90); for third, Charles Mathias and Mark Hatfield (80), and, running a poor fourth, New York’s other senator, Jacob Javits (75). . . . Connecticut’s AFL-CIO council overriding its executive committee which had decided against any endorsement this year, has voted to back Democrat Joseph Duffey—a blow to campaign hopes of independent incumbent Sen. Dodd.

■ Latest group to weigh in with rating of congressional performance, the American Security Council which has published what it calls its “national security index,” i.e., how congressmen voted on defense questions. Of the thirteen senators running this year it gives seven a 100 per cent rating: Democrats Thomas Dodd (Conn.) and John Stennis (Miss.), and Republicans Paul Fannin (Ariz.), Hiram Fong (Hawaii), Roman Hruska (Neb.), George Murphy (Cal.), Hugh Scott (Pa.), and six zero: Charles Goodell, the only Republican, and Democrats Philip Hart (D. Mich.), Edward Kennedy (Mass.), William Proxmire (Wis.), Harrison Williams (N.J.), Joseph Tydings (Md.).

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■ Significant and/ or interesting political developments of the week: Los Angeles Times’ unexpected endorsement of Ronald Reagan over Jess Unruh “as clearly the better qualified to guide [California] through the four difficult years ahead.” . . . Detroit News poll shows Lenore Romney way way back of Sen. Phil Hart at this moment. He got 60 per cent of vote against her 23 per cent. Part of trouble is intra-party bitterness coming out of Lenore’s primary campaign against conservative Robert Huber. . . . Situation in Washington all mixed up. As result of primary, Democratic hawk Henry Jackson will be facing Republican dove Charles Elicker in November. Elicker has come out against Safeguard, other Administration defense measures that Jackson has helped push through Congress. . . . New York ADA has made its choice: it’s Richard Ottinger over Charles Goodell for senator, but Goodell, the Republican, got half as many votes as Ottinger. . . . Very liberal N.Y. GOP congressman Ogden Reid (Westchester) says he is running an “independent” campaign this year, which means, in fact, that he’s not supporting Goodell. Reasons (since they are ideologically simpatico) could be a) that Reid hoped he would have been appointed to the Senate seat Goodell now occupies and b) the smell of defeat about the Goodell enterprise. . . . Goodell, incidentally, is the ranking Republican on just-released ADA rating of the 91st Congress. He got 95 per cent score; tied for second (among Republicans), Edward Brooke and Clifford Case (90); for third, Charles Mathias and Mark Hatfield (80), and, running a poor fourth, New York’s other senator, Jacob Javits (75). . . . Connecticut’s AFL-CIO council overriding its executive committee which had decided against any endorsement this year, has voted to back Democrat Joseph Duffey—a blow to campaign hopes of independent incumbent Sen. Dodd.

■ Latest group to weigh in with rating of congressional performance, the American Security Council which has published what it calls its “national security index,” i.e., how congressmen voted on defense questions. Of the thirteen senators running this year it gives seven a 100 per cent rating: Democrats Thomas Dodd (Conn.) and John Stennis (Miss.), and Republicans Paul Fannin (Ariz.), Hiram Fong (Hawaii), Roman Hruska (Neb.), George Murphy (Cal.), Hugh Scott (Pa.), and six zero: Charles Goodell, the only Republican, and Democrats Philip Hart (D. Mich.), Edward Kennedy (Mass.), William Proxmire (Wis.), Harrison Williams (N.J.), Joseph Tydings (Md.).