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he abrupt departure of Lyn Nofziger from the Reagan campaign staff tends to confirm reports that campaign manager John Sears wants to repackage Reagan into a middle-of-the-roader. Nofziger has been with Reagan since his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966. He says he’s leaving because “I don’t see eye to eye with the people in charge.” … In an earlier dustup, Reagan lost the services of a key 1976 aide, David Keene, who has joined the George Bush staff. Nofziger says he won’t work for any other Republican. . . . Also splitting the Right (New Right Div.) is Richard Viguerie’s move into the John Connally camp. Terry Dolan, head of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, says he disagrees with Viguerie, that he doesn’t think Connally is the candidate conservatives should support. But Connally is the man many Democrats think will head the Republican ticket next year. A Christian Science Monitor poll of Democratic state chairmen and national committeemen finds that 36 of them think Connally will be the Republican nominee in 1980, 35 think it will be Reagan, 21 Baker, seven Bush, five Ford, two Haig, and one Dole. . . . There’s a boomlet in anti-abortion circles to run Sen. Jesse Helms (R., N.C.) for the Vice Presidency as a way to focus the right-to-life vote in ’80. . . . And in Connecticut, Lowell Weicker has been less than receptive to reports that his former Senate colleague James Buckley may run for Abraham Ribicoff’s seat. Says Weicker, huffily: “I don’t consider Buckley a native of Connecticut.”

That same Monitor poll of Democratic Party leaders shows that 111 of them continue to think that Kennedy will not enter the presidential race; only 18 think he will. . . . California pollster Mervin Field tends to disagree, and adds: “Kennedy right now can decide on his own volition whether he wants to be President. Ulysses Grant and George Washington are the only others I can think of who found themselves in that position.” . . . The Carter campaign fund-raisers reportedly are having a hard time filling their coffers. Some traditional Democratic moneymen (wealthy Jews, big business, oil) have turned off the spigots. . . . But south of the border, they love him. A poll of Mexico City residents, taken by the Los Angeles Times, shows 64 per cent of Mexicans have a favorable opinion of Carter, to 57 per cent favorable for Castro, 42 for Brezhnev.

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he abrupt departure of Lyn Nofziger from the Reagan campaign staff tends to confirm reports that campaign manager John Sears wants to repackage Reagan into a middle-of-the-roader. Nofziger has been with Reagan since his first gubernatorial campaign in 1966. He says he’s leaving because “I don’t see eye to eye with the people in charge.” … In an earlier dustup, Reagan lost the services of a key 1976 aide, David Keene, who has joined the George Bush staff. Nofziger says he won’t work for any other Republican. . . . Also splitting the Right (New Right Div.) is Richard Viguerie’s move into the John Connally camp. Terry Dolan, head of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, says he disagrees with Viguerie, that he doesn’t think Connally is the candidate conservatives should support. But Connally is the man many Democrats think will head the Republican ticket next year. A Christian Science Monitor poll of Democratic state chairmen and national committeemen finds that 36 of them think Connally will be the Republican nominee in 1980, 35 think it will be Reagan, 21 Baker, seven Bush, five Ford, two Haig, and one Dole. . . . There’s a boomlet in anti-abortion circles to run Sen. Jesse Helms (R., N.C.) for the Vice Presidency as a way to focus the right-to-life vote in ’80. . . . And in Connecticut, Lowell Weicker has been less than receptive to reports that his former Senate colleague James Buckley may run for Abraham Ribicoff’s seat. Says Weicker, huffily: “I don’t consider Buckley a native of Connecticut.”

That same Monitor poll of Democratic Party leaders shows that 111 of them continue to think that Kennedy will not enter the presidential race; only 18 think he will. . . . California pollster Mervin Field tends to disagree, and adds: “Kennedy right now can decide on his own volition whether he wants to be President. Ulysses Grant and George Washington are the only others I can think of who found themselves in that position.” . . . The Carter campaign fund-raisers reportedly are having a hard time filling their coffers. Some traditional Democratic moneymen (wealthy Jews, big business, oil) have turned off the spigots. . . . But south of the border, they love him. A poll of Mexico City residents, taken by the Los Angeles Times, shows 64 per cent of Mexicans have a favorable opinion of Carter, to 57 per cent favorable for Castro, 42 for Brezhnev.