For the Record

Happily wed: LBJ and the 71 frosh Democratic congressmen swept into office with him last November. On first 66 roll calls of 89th Congress the freshmen voted with the President 83 per cent of the time. … In return, federal funds for sewers, airports, antipovertywarring etc. being channeled to districts represented by freshmen, with gravy heaviest in 43 districts that were narrowly won from Republican incumbents. … Credit for knocking down consular treaty with Russia, thought to be a Senate shoo-in, belongs to Republican senators Karl Mundt, Frank Carlson, John Williams, Bourke Hickenlooper, Democrats Thomas Dodd, Frank Lausche, with assist from David Lawrence whose syndicated column on the treaty pointed out that we would be giving Soviet diplomats unreciprocated privileges.

David Dubinsky, of ILGWU, blasted Sen. Fulbright last week for his new drive to ease restrictions on trade with Eastern Europe. “Credits, liberal trade terms and technical aid,” said the Garment Workers’ leader, “have never helped any dictatorship become democratic, peaceful or considerate of the needs of its people.” . . . Unexpected: the demand by Liberal Sen. Birch Bayh (D., Ind.) that we break off ties with Indonesia until “Sukarno begins behaving more like a chief of state than a spoiled and dangerously mischievous little boy.”. . . U. S. delegation to UN reportedly is confident the new move to seat Red China will be beaten back again this year. … A possible aid in the argument: the report by International Jurists that Chinese have to date killed 65,000 Tibetans, imprisoned 10,000, driven 100,000 into exile.

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Happily wed: LBJ and the 71 frosh Democratic congressmen swept into office with him last November. On first 66 roll calls of 89th Congress the freshmen voted with the President 83 per cent of the time. … In return, federal funds for sewers, airports, antipovertywarring etc. being channeled to districts represented by freshmen, with gravy heaviest in 43 districts that were narrowly won from Republican incumbents. … Credit for knocking down consular treaty with Russia, thought to be a Senate shoo-in, belongs to Republican senators Karl Mundt, Frank Carlson, John Williams, Bourke Hickenlooper, Democrats Thomas Dodd, Frank Lausche, with assist from David Lawrence whose syndicated column on the treaty pointed out that we would be giving Soviet diplomats unreciprocated privileges.

David Dubinsky, of ILGWU, blasted Sen. Fulbright last week for his new drive to ease restrictions on trade with Eastern Europe. “Credits, liberal trade terms and technical aid,” said the Garment Workers’ leader, “have never helped any dictatorship become democratic, peaceful or considerate of the needs of its people.” . . . Unexpected: the demand by Liberal Sen. Birch Bayh (D., Ind.) that we break off ties with Indonesia until “Sukarno begins behaving more like a chief of state than a spoiled and dangerously mischievous little boy.”. . . U. S. delegation to UN reportedly is confident the new move to seat Red China will be beaten back again this year. … A possible aid in the argument: the report by International Jurists that Chinese have to date killed 65,000 Tibetans, imprisoned 10,000, driven 100,000 into exile.