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his primary ,than Andrews did in his POLITICS: PEOPLE primary against an ultra-conservative state senator. Dorgan may well have votes of rancher-farmers in western his eyes on a 1976 primary race against North Dakota and thus affect Sen. Sen. Quentin Burdick (D), whose Young's vote totals. In the state GOP quiet dislike of fellow Democrat Guy The North Dakota Senate race con chaipnan's view, Sen. Young's position is alienating some members of the tinues to be a tossup. The eventual out has improved steadily ever since Guy party. • come will be determined by the inde left the governorship in January 1973. pendent candidacy of a former Demo The races for both Young and u.S. cratic state chairman. Rep. Mark Andrews (R) are likely to The latest poll by North Dakota be considerably more difficult than any ALASKA weekly newspapers showed Sen. Milton other they have recently experienced. R. Young (R), 76, leading former Andrews has a hefty lead in the news When Walter Hickel (R) was gov Gov. William 1. Guy (D), 54, by less papers polls over State Tax Commis ernor of Alaska, he was instrumental than four percentage points. The poll, sioner Byron L. Dorgan (0), but the in establishing Alaska's "open pri however, was taken in mid-August, young Democrat drew more votes in mary" which allows cross-party voting did not include independent candi and translates the primary election into dates, and usually reflects a five-percent a mini-general election. bias for Republican candidates. This year, the open primary was in Guy easily crushed former Republi strumental in eliID.inating Walter Hic can Robert P. McCarney in the Sep kel from the gubernatorial race. tember 3 primary, which was notable The open primary was not the only for the high Democratic and the low factor in the gubernatorial nomination Republican turnout. Republican State of former Senate president Jay Ham Chairman Allan C. Young discounts mond (R) over Hickel and former the significance of the turnout; he Gov. Keith Miller. Hammond, a poet points out that the Democrats pushed wilderness ,guide-politician-fisherman, voter ,turnout while the Republicans himself cited his beard as one element did not and that many Republicans in his victory. "The beard has served crossed over to the Democratic primary to create a certain distinction, and a to vote for McCarney, an auto dealer name identification factor/' said Ham and perennial gadfly loser. Those Mc mond. Carney votes cannot "conceivably" go But an analysis of the vote totals in to Guy in the general election, asserts the Senate and gubernatorial primaries Chairman Young. indicates a lot of Democrats must have Of the two independent candidates, voted for Jay Hammond in the Repub the most serious is former Democratic lican primary. Incumbent Gov. Wil Chairman James Jungroth, an environ liam A. Egan had 92 percent of the mentalist who is basing much of his vote over 16,000 votes. However, in campaign on opposition to strip coal the Democratic Senate primary, Sen. mining. GOP Chairman Young expects Mike Gravel had over 18,000 votes Jungroth to poll 5-10 percent of the and 53 percent of the vote in incom vote November vote - gaining most plete returns. of his adherents among liberal, envi The preliminary results, in other ronmentalist, and college cOhstituencies words, indicate that close to 20,000 which would normally vote Demo voters switched from the Democratic cratic. Young discounts the argument Senate primary to the Republican gu that Jungroth will cut deeply into the bernatorial primary. A lot of -these votes must have gone to Hammond 41 percent margin. Lewis, an Anchor almost into the toss-up category. because he got 48 percent of the vote age contractor, received more than his Rhodes has been hitting~e countqr compared to 34 percent for Hickel margin of victory from his home fair circuit since mid-summer, ham and 17 percent for Miller. town. Although the White House mering at wh~t he says is Gilligan's Another way of analyzing the vote made no endorsements, Lewis cam failure to use income generated by the. is to conclude that incumbent Egan is paign ads announced, "President Ford state income tax (passed in 1971 at in big trouble. Alaska voters have re has called for men like C. R. Lewis." Gilligan's initiative) for education. In jected two former governors already Lewis has tried to moderate his im addition, Gilligan created serious cred and seem likely to reject a third in age, but the Senate race this f.all may ibility 'problems of his own when, in November. (Hickel defeated then-in still not provide much of a choice for the face of overwhelming contrary cumbent Egan in 1966.) many Alaskans who find Gravel per facts, he denied the existence of an There were other factors in Ham sonally unpalatable and Lewis too con $83 million surplus for fiscal 1974. He mond's victory: his fresh, bearded servative.Many may boycott the elec continued to maintain no surplus ex face; the support of Lowell Thomas, tion. isted even as the legislature returned Jr., who won the GOP nomination for In contrast, U.S. Rep. Don Young for a wrap-up session in July and ap lieutenant governor with ease; the se (R) appears to be safe in his congres propriated $80 million for existing cret support of government workers sional seat. Although he was unop and new projects. who admired Hammond but could not posed in his primary, he received as Although many Republicans were openly participate in his campaign; inany votes as both his potential Dem hoping that Rhodes would not run and perhaps a mini-backlash to the ocratic opponents. again, and despaired of his chances in Alaska pipeline about which Ham a year when personal and professional mond was less boosterish than the Though the Republican Patty now integrity would have a heavy impact on other gubernatorial candidates. controls both houses of the state legis the electorate, the scent of regaining The November result may now lature, Democrats are favored to take the governorship is slowly generating hinge on the partisan loyalties of Re control of both houses this fall activity at the local level and shaking publicans and Democrats. If disaffect based on the primary returns. Even if some of the post-Watergate blues. ed Republican consevatives and busi Haminond is elected and the legisla nessmen support Egan and disaffected ture is Democratic, they will have a Only a monumental blunder by John young and environmentally-oriented better working relationship than Egan Glenn (D) would seem to s-tand be Democrats support Hammond, the and the current GOP legislature. tween him and the Senate seat. Geve November election could be unpredict Although former governors do get land Mayor Ralph Perk, the GOP able. defeated in American politics, it is candidate, has been running (if that's There may also be a good deal of much rarer for a state capital to be the wor4) the most inept Republican party disaffection in the Senate race, defeated. But. by a crushing margin in campaign since John Marshall. Briley but it wiIl not necessarily be the same the Aalaska primary, Juneau lost to an lost to Sen. Frank Lausche (D) in kind. as-yet-unnamed, more northern city, 1962. He has severe money problems Sen. Gravel has long been consid which is scheduled to take over as the and had to borrow $12,000 from his ered vulnerable. Many Republicans seat of government in 1980. For Jun campaign manager in mid-August. His had hoped ·that Hickel would contest eau, the defeat will mean true eco &taff has been cut back, and, at last Gravel and beat the dickens out of the nomic dislocation. • report, the GOP Senate Campaign maverick Democrat. Instead the Re Committee had decided to take him off publicans 'lad a primary between pro its priority list, meaning substantially gressive State Senate president Terry reduced financial and other assistance Miller, a young and attractive candi OHIO from Washington. With Glenn's better date, and State Sen. C. R. Lewis, a 58- than-tbe-average-Democrat's ability to year-old official of the John Birch So Former Ohio Gov. James A. . take Republican votes, and Perk's ap ciety. Rhodes (R) seems to be slowly but parent unwillingness to cut back on Lewis outspent Miller nearly 3-1 steadily closing the lead held by Gov. mayoral duties to campaign regularly, and upset the favored Miller by a 53- John J. Gilligan (D), moving the race the Democrats should easily hang on-
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Saxbe was appointed at KENTUCKY ing. Even Lexington Mayor Foster torney general. Pettit (D) has disclaimed Lexington's Thtee congressional races are of par need for water at the expense of flood ticular interest: the 1st CD. in eastern Before Richard Nixon's resignation, ing the gorge behind a dam. Cincinnati, the 8th CD. between Cin Republicans expected 1974 to join the Ford has been badly hurt by his cinnati and Dayton, and the suburban growing list of years of electoral de support for the dam, especially among Cleveland 23rd CD. Democrat Tom feats that started in 1969. Now, how conservationists who are most promi Luken took the previously Republican ever, the pictur~ is much brighter fOf nent in the Louisville and Lexington 1st CD. in a special election last the Kentucky GOP. areas, Cook's stand is winning him spring, and will again face moderate With Nixon and Watergate re votes which normally go to Demo Republican Willis D. Gradison. Gradi moved as issues. incumbent Republican cratic candidates. Ford is also on the son is again well-organized and well Sen. Marlow Cook is able to campaign defensive about a series of miniscan financed, and it is unlikely that the on those issues which are most bene dais in state - government involving Democrats will be able to mount the all ficial to his reelection. Cook's opponent leases and contracts. A now-cancelled out effort they did in the spring. Luken is Democratic Go~. Wendell Ford, plan to build a chairlift through the appears to be ahead, but it is close. who had been considered the clear fa Cumberland Falls State Park did little A vacancy in the 8th CD. was cre vorite to take Cook's seat away from to help Ford's problems with environ ated when incumbent Republican Wal the GOP. The new political climat~, mentalists. • ter Powell did not seek re-election to however, has placed Cook on the of a third term. State Rep. Thomas Kind fensive and taken much of the wind ness, the GOP nominee, seems to have out of Gov. Ford's sails. CONSERVATIVES a well-organized campaign in a three Ford is hampered not only by the way race, and should win in this presence of the' other Ford in the According to Human EVe1lts, which heavily Republican district, which was White House, but also by a fairly dis once represented by Donald E. "Buz" seems to predict -the decline and fall of organized campaign effort. The Ken everything on a weekly basis, "Gerald Lukens. Kindness will only be in trou tucky Democratic Party has created a ble if the independent candidate si Ford has been in the presidency for a reputation for its ability to win elec little over two weeks, and while the phons off a disproportionate number tions through adequate financing and of Republican votes. Lairds, the Evanses and Novaks, the excellent organization. Lately, however, W 3:$hington Posts, and other illustrious The 23rd CD. is also vacant because tho Democratic operation seems to voices for the Liberal Establishment of a Republican retirement, that of have slipped, while C~k has estab have been rejoicing over Ford's per- William E. Minshall. State Rep. lished a more aggressive organization. fomiance, what, in truth, has the new George Mastics (R) appears to have Cook is known as a resilient and President accomplished that is so de the edge, principally because of the lucky politician who can never be serving of applause?" .-independent candidacy of Dennis Ku: counted out Events J:ia:
3 Commented National Review's Dan point of no return. If it stands up and iel Oliver, "Even so, while to the right resists, there may be hope for its re NEVADA on most major issues, (Ford) is not juvenation." Barry Goldwater, who approached More sympathetic to Rockefeller was Two women captured Republican America with the conscience of a con syndicated columnist George Will who gubernatorial nominations this year. servative. President Ford is more prac said, "Conservatives should dry those Neither is given much chance of un tical politician; his Administration is starting tears and cheerfully welcome seating Democratic incumbents in the not likely to be 1964 come true, but to Washington Nelson Rockefeller, a November election, but then neither it could be better than anything we've sobered liberal." Rockefeller, according was given much chance of winning experienced since." to Will, has an invaluable "knowledge their party's primary. Columnist James J. Kilpatrick was of what doesn't work ... in govern In Maryland, Republican National also rhetorically kind to Ford. "It is ment." Committeewoman Louise Gore usea hard to imagine how Gerald Ford superior organiza,tion and Republican Even southern Republican chairmen could have moved off to a better start. resentment at U.S. Rep. Lawrence Ho appeared to have been mollified by a His swearing-in speech on the 9th was gan's role in the House Judiciary Com Washington meeting with the vice superb; his address to Congress on the mitt~'s impeachment hearings to edge president designate. Columnists Row 12th hit precisely -the right note." past Hogan into the general election land Evans and Robert Novak have at against Gov. Marvin Mandel (D). In a later column, Kilpatrick wrote, tributed much of the anti-Ford rhetoric In Neyada, Republican gubernatorial "But one would like to say to the new ·to aides of California Gov. Ronald candidate Shirley Crumpler, president skipper, as he goes veering off to port: Reagan, who is reportedly perturbed by of the Nevada Federation of Republi Whoa! Easy! Veer to port gently! Let the abrupt end of his presidential can Women, got considerably less na us not jibe! Let us tack slowly instead. hopes. tional publicity than two Democratic Taken one by one, Ford's leftward Like U.S. Rep. John Ashbrook (R women: Maya Miller who lost the overtures are not so alarming . . . Ohio) and Robert Baumann (R-Md.), Democratic Senate nomination to Lt. What mars the honeymoon is the_ col former First Monday editor John D. Gov. Harry Reid, and Beverly Har lective impact of all these gestures com Lofton, Jr. is angry that leading con rell, a well-publicized madam who won ing at once ... A few healing gestures servatives did not show more backbone a primary for state representative. toward the neglected right would be on the Rockefeller nomination. Lofton fatefully rece;.ved." A third Democratic woman, Olga B. writes that "what is even more unfor Covelli, was a Democratic primary op Kilpatrick's old paper, the Rich tunate than Ford's choosing of Rocke ponent to incumbent Gov. "Mike" mond News Leader, editorialized on a feller, is the reaction of Republican O'Callaghan, whom Crumpler will tougher note on the Rockefeller nom conservatives to that ill-advised choice. now face in November. Covelli, no . ination, "Have the conservatives lost It's really surprising. After all, being table for her Ziegfield Follies career, again? Firs-t the hopes they placed in reactionary is what we are supposed to ten marriages, and a prison term for Richard Nixon were dashed; now the be best at." attempted abortion, made campaign hope that they have placed in Gerald Rockefeller's nomina:tion, in sum, is statements like, "Honey, I'm running Ford has been diminished. The belief supposed to be a step backward, an around but if I ever caught O'Calla will not down that the conserVatives example of what Lofton calls the "bum s.han, I'd wrestle him to the ground." are to be taken for granted by the Re advice that being President means Crumpler, a tax accountant and real publican Party." (Ford) should be more liberal." estate businesswoman, came from be Former conservative seer Garry It is annoying to some conservatives hind to defeat State Rep. William E. Wills meanwhile noted that the bitter because it is a symbolic reunification Bickerstaff, who represents a Reno opposltton to Nelson Rockefeller of the old backbone of the GOP: mid suburb. O'Callaghan's popularity is so among some conservatives WjlS based western Old Right conservatives and high that heavyweight Republica,n can on the "pre-existing misconception'" Northea9t moderates. didates declined to enter the race. that Rockefeller was a liberal when the Meanwhile, Christian Scie1tCe Moni The 39-year-old Crumpler showed former New York governor really was surprising strength on the campaign a "hard line cold warrior." tor correspondent Godfrey Sperling, Jr., says President Eord is not worried trail. As State GOP Chairman Walter The president ofthe American Con about his conservative flank, believing o'Casey observed, "On her feet in servative Union, M. Stanton Evans, as Richard Nixon did, that conserva front of a group, she really comes was particularly upset by the nomina tives have no moice but to support him across." Though o'Casey admits tion of Rockefeller. Writing in Huma11 and his policies. Sperling quoted oni' Crwppler's battle is all uphill, he is EVe1lts, he said, "The naming of Rock Ford associate as observing that "the prepared for happy surprise Novem efeller provides, I think, a crucial test important thing to say about our new ber 5. of conservative determination. If the Preident is that he really wants to find Crumpler's running mate for lieu Republican Right rolls over and ac solutions to human problems. And if tenant governor has indicated he will cepts so flagrant a liberal as Rocke this means that he thinks he needs run an independent campaign. State feller, one can only conclude that its liberal-oriented social legislation, he Sen. Bill Raggio (R) from Reno nar new-found 'flexibility' has passed the will move in that direction." • rowly defeated Rex Bell, a Las Vegas
4 official who is the son of a former him out of the state in five minutes.") pardon is not expected to, disrupt, their lieutenant governor and actress Clara Republicans are more confident plans to replace Sen. Howard cannon Bow. Raggio's strength in Reno should about the prospects of former Gov. (D) with Laxalt, a former gox.ernor help balance Crumpler's Las Vegas Paul Laxalt in this year's Senate race. turned-casino owner. Like O'Callaghan, base; he now faces his successor as Lt. Gov. Reid's billboards proclaim: Laxalfs popularity crosses party lines. Washoe County district attorney, "He's younger. He's tougher. Nobody In 1972, U.S. Rep. David Towell Robert Rose, in November. Rose eaSily owns him." However, at 34, some (R) surprised most observers by win crushed James H. Bilbray, whose po conservative Democrats a~e likely to ning the GOP House nomination and litical career has gone rapidly downhill think Reid is too young; many already then defeating Bilbray in the general since he upset veteran u.s. Rep. Wal think he's too brash. Laxalt himself election with 52 percent of the vote. ter Baring (D) in the 1972 Demo has proven his toughness and candor He has another tight race this year cratic primary. and seems to have escaped mos-t of the with Clark County Judge James San (Footnote: Raggio was responsible damage of any alleged improprieties in tini (D), 35, but GOP strategy will for Mrs. Covelli's prison term; asked his relations with billionaire Howard again be, to pick up Democratic votes how she would get along with Raggio Hughes. which went to Santini's conservative if she were governor and he, lieutenant Republicans are not conceding an Mormon opponent in the bitter Demo governor, Covelli said, ''I'd railroad easy r~e, but even Richard Nixon's cratic primary. •
issues and national politics," took the job only weeks before Reagan's presidential prospects plummeted. POLITICS: PEOPLE Reagan has been effectively ignored by the new Ford Administration and in turn seems to be ignoring it. • Despite persistent Capitol Hill rumors about in vestigations of his congressional campaign, former U.S. • The California Polls taken in August by Mervin Rep. George Hansen (R) remains confident that he will D. Field showed Secretary of State Jerry Brown (D) be exonerated of mish;i:mdling corporate checks in his leading Controller Houston Flournoy (R), 50-36 per primary-campaign against incumbent U.S. Rep. Orval cent. Brown led Flournoy in May, 47-30 percent. Field Hansen (R) in Idaho's 2nd C.D. The conservative attributes Brown's new strength to growing Democratic George beat the moderate Orval by 2,800 votes, but a unity. In the Senate race, Sen. Alan Cranston (D) hal! post-primary investigation by the House Administration a commanding lead, 59-26 percent, over ~tate Sen. H. L. Committee into George's campaign was subsequently Richardson, an ultra-conservative Republican. In the turned over to the Justice Department. Reports on the top state races, only Republican Attorney Gene~al results of that investigation indicated that 18-35 felony Evelle Younger is leading his opponent, 52-33 percent. violations and 21 corporate checks had been found. George Hansen maintains that the alleged corporate • The California gubernatorial race heated up in donations were from "ma and pa" businesses and were early September as Flournoy and Brown met September returned when he discovered them. "I've had a lot of 10 in their first of six debates. Flournoy displayed his fun being tried by the news leaks," George has quipped; recently-improved speaking style and responded to he maintains that only $1,800 in contributions is in Brown's charges that Flournoy would continue "recycled volved. Hansen, who says he has yet to be contacted by Reaganism" as governor by charging that he would be the Justice Department, faces conservative Democrat as much like Reagan as Jerry Brown is like "his old Max Hanson in the general election. man;" Jerry's cold, imperious style does not much re semble that of former Gov. Edmund Pat Brown (D). • Efforts by New Jersey Republicans to payoff the Although both Brown and Flournoy handled themselves debt from U. S. Rep. Charles Sandman's 1973 guber well in their first debate, Flournoy may be picking up natorial campaign hav~ailed. The GOP, which had the momentum he needs to overcome Brown's lead in officially assumed responSibility for paying off all the the polls. $225,000 campaign deficit, reversed its position when insufficient angels could be found to assume $7,500 • According to University of Pittsburgh political shares of the debt. Now Sandman will be responsible scientist Paul Allen Beck, the New South has developed for his $116,000 share of debt, further complicating his from young voters - not from the regional migrations present re-election effort, which, reportedly also has between North and South and not from the enfran financial difficulties. chisement of black voters. According to a paper pre sented by Beck at a Chicago meeting of the American • In South Carolina's 87th House District, State Political Science Association, the migration of northern Representative Republican Larry Koon will be out to Republicans into the South and the migration of poor make State Rep. Lucius Porth (D) cry "uncle." Porth Democrats into the North was offset by the new black changed his registration from Republican to Democrat vote. However, Beck attributes the rise of the GOP in last spring and will be opposed by his still-Republican the South to northern Republicans. "Since 1960, from nephew in November. one-third to one-half of all southern Republicans have grown up outside the region, giving the southern GOP a distinctly 'Yankee' flavor," he said. • Former American Conservative Union official Jeffrey Bell was named in July as a political aide to ~ Ran~olph Crossley, the Hawaii GOP guberna California Gov. Ronald Reagan (R). Bell, who de tonal candidate, almost backed out of the race in August scribes his job as keeping "on top of national political when no running mate for lieutenant governor could be 5 found. Just in time to prevent withdrawal, Benjamin F. J. Leahy (D). Former Attorney General James M. Dillingham, a businessman who moved to Australia to Jeffords (R) also won handily over two other opp In another sense, the manner in which the decision was made sets back the restoration .of a certain legiti EDITOBIAL macy to the two party political system. THE PARDON While partisanship should have had no place in this decision, Republican counsel should have been sought President Ford's untimely and premature decision to and considered anyway. Wat~rgate happened because pardon Richard Nixon is regrettable. It paints our Republican Party principles were rejected in favor of criminal justice system as one which gives special treat strategic politics. Still, the Republican Party had to carry ment to the' powerful, creates the appearance, albeit the Watergate burden. The desertion of party principles unjustified, of further coverup, and while constitutional, for strategic politics discredited the two-party system. in a very real sense undermines the processes of law and the Constitution. But the decision and the manner in which it was made are especially unfortunate in that they set back a process of reestablishing the legitimacy of our governmental and political institutions. Following Lyndon Johnson'S example, Richard Nixon acted outside the American system by waging a war which had neither the official approval of Congress nor the support of the people. But NlXon did not stop there. He assaulted the system by conducting a vendetta against Congress and the press, by manipulating executive insti tutions and proceaures for personal political gain and vengeance, and finally by obstructing the judicial process. The credibility of Congress, the executive, an(,l the courts was senous1y undermined. The process of restoring this credibility began with The process of restoring credibility to principled par the public reaction to the dismissal of Archibald Cox tisan politics began when Republican legislators forced and gained momentum with the resumed prosecutions of Nixon to resign, putting principles ahead of personality. high- and low-level Watergate conspirators, the im President Ford, elected or not, is a Republican. Observ peachment process, Nixon's forced resignation, and ing what desertion of party principles did to his prede finally Presiaent Ford's new spirit of cooperation with cessor, he, of all people, should recognize the value of and respect for Congress as well as candor and openness principled .partisan counsel in major policy decisions. By in the executive. We once again had the appearance of failin~ to lOclude party leaders in a decision of this balance in the government and a President who desired magOltude, this process too was set back. to serve the public rather than master it. t There is no doubt that Richard Nixon has suffered The -decision to pardon and the secretive manner in enonnously, perhaps even enough. We do not prejudge which it was made, while within the prerogatives of the his guilt, nor have we ever asked for his head. We have President, were in a real sense outside the system. An only asked that the constitutional processes be respected. extraordinary p.ower was exercised in lieu of, not in There is room in the American system for compassion, conjunction Wlth, the established processes of criminal even for one who demonstrated little and attacked that justice. While hardl}' comparable to the Nixon assault, very system. But compassion for one must be balanced the decision portends a continuation of a trend for with other, broader considerations. We believe the other Presidents to act outside the system. The reappearance considerations should have prevailed here and that the of this trend set back the process of restoring credibility decision-making process should have been thought out to the government. more carefully in "iew of past events. • 6 of specie, produces a positive balance projects, the situation has drastically of payments under ceteris paribus con changed. COMMENTARY: ditioos. To foster and maintain this The anti-inflationary measures of the sort of favorable balance is the under Nixon Administration opened the IIFLATIOI lying motive in much of American floodgates to a research exodus. Such tariff and quota laws. diminished support for research proj Recent economic pOlicies designed ects, which are the backbone for suc to curb inflation; ranging from devalu cess in many crucial scientific fields, ation to wage and .price controls, have, will have the effect of relegating.the in the international sphere, been pre United States scientific community to a The dominantly . influenced by the items completely dependent position. It is composing the· balance of trade statis not too diffici:tlt to visualize that failure tics. Both economic theoreticians and to narrow the ever-widening techno political practitioners have neglected logical gap will be detrimental to the later. the flow of knowledge. Like goods, American economic and political global services, and specie; the international role. mQvement of knowledge and ideas, There is no doubt that the raging aatioaal measured in terms of "brain drain" or inflationary spiral confronting the free, the transfer· of- technology, is influ industrialized countries is a challenge enced by anti-inflationary measures. to the very fabric of capitalism and During the last decade, technologi must be met. There is also ito· doubt Flow cally intensive industries have become that the institution of some very drastic increasingly concerned over the grow and unpopular measures - such as an ing superiority of foreign, basic re increase in taxes, a decrease in govern 01 search skills. While American research ment expenditures, and reduction of scientists have demonstrated over the availabiHty of credit - will result whelming success in applied or devel in both the successful curtailment of Kaowledlle opmental research, multinational cor inflation and high unemployment. porations have had to locate their What is important to consider in any "basic" research facilities abroad to anti-inflationary policy is the system of by Chaim Ginsberg take advantage of foreign know-how. priorities and consequences that the This problem was not too apparent various alternative measures may gen The types of flows generally en during the period when the aerospace erate. Reduction of support for basic countered in international trade and industry was in full bloom and the research may seem to be an expedient investment are of goods, services, or United States government poured vast short-run solution, but ten years from specie. An increase in the outflow of sums of money into university-centered now the effects of this policy may be goods and services from a country, ac research projects. With the sudden cut more pernicious to America than to companied by a decrease in the outflow back in government support of such day's economic dilemma. • simply because their father left it to them, money they did nothing at all to create. NO AMERICAN MAN OR WOMAN WALKS SAFE TODAY WITH SUCH UN DOL Y10TED: POLITICS FETERED (sic) MONEY POWER IN THE CONTROL OF THE WlllTE HOUSE." • "Lemou Plus Lemon Equals Bitter Lemon," by Wil liam Loeb. The New Hampshire Sumlay News, August 25, • "Little Rock Lady Vs. Kensett King-PIn," by Walter Nunn. Arkansas Advocate, August, 1974. In an ordinary 1974. Between quadrennial presidential elections, it is easy year, Republican Judy Petty would be given zero chance to forget how horrible the Loeb newspapers in New Hamp of unseating House Ways and Means Committee Chairman shire really are. New Hampsblre Sunday News Editor Wilbur Mills. But Petty is making waves this year with B. J. McQuaid suggested that readers clip out the follow Mills' ing editorial by publisher William Loeb "and save it for her attacks on 1972 presidential campaign and his your children and grandchildren." It is the sort of editorial conduct of the Ways and Means business behind closed one can expect from a man who refers to the President as doors. As Nunn analyzes the race, "Judy Petty is not to "Jerry the Jerk." Wdtes Loeb: "As predicted by this be underestimated. She's getting the media attention she newspaper many, many months ago, the sinister, shadowy needs to become recognized, she's articulate, and her en figure behind the whole attack on Nixon has finally sur thusiasm is catching. She has an unusual amount of p0- faced and what you have is a Rockefeller administration litical experience for a first-time candidate, and she is with a ventriloquist's dummy taking orders as Presi converting liabilities of sex and age into assets. Her refusal dent ... THE LEFT-WING-DOMINATED COMMUNI!' to take positions on specific issues has gone unnoticed CATIONS INDUSTRY AND ITS SOCIALIST AND COM thus far. Most important, her timing may be on target in MUNIST AJJJF.S FROM COAST TO COAST HAVE a year in which incumbents 'are on shaky ground. If so, NOW ACHIEVED WHAT WAS THOUGHT TO BE 1M the Judy-and-Goliath show could upstage the Bumpers POSSmLE. THEY HAVE OVERTURNED THE DEMO Fulbright match." CRATIC ELECTORAL PROCESS OF THE UNITED • "The 'Sun Belt' Becomes Unbuckled," by Kevin P. STATES (emphasis is Loeb's) ... You now have in com Phillips. Philadelphia. Bulletin, August 12, 1974. "Five plete control of the United States the awesome power of years ago, I coined the phrase 'Sun Belt' to describe these the Rockefeller fortune - something which should not be conservative-trending boom states (southern United States allowed to exist in a free country, where no man should from Florida to California). The name stuck. I WI8.S opti be allowed to have the money power the Rockefellers have, mistic about their future, but other commentators mac!e 7 critical-to-hostile mention of the rootless, right-wing cul fashion a winning campaign [if he can appeal to Wallaceite ture of aerospace engineers, Cadillac evangelists, oilmen, voters]." and cowboy financiers and real estate speculators. TQere was no moral or traditional framework, they said. Sun Belt society was an irresponsible, fast-buck milieu. A • "Beagan Finds a Bole," by J:ames R: Dickenson. discouraging amount of that criticism has proved well Washington Star.News, September 1, 1974. "Repprts that founded," writes Phillips, commenting on the Watergate Gov. Ronald Reagan's presidential hopes. were snuffed out. phenomenon and its progenitors. Phillips still sees a future by Gerald Ford's ascension to the Whi~e House. are turn for his Sun Belt conservatives, however: "Not only must ing out to be premature . . . Reagan IS emergmg as the a new kind of Sun Belter emerge in national politics, but spokesman for the ideological, conservative wing of the Southern Rim conservatives must also think long and hard Republican Party,· which believes it is the majority and about de-Hughesifying, de-Nixonburgering, and de-country the real winner in 1972. It also believes that its triumph clubbing their state parties. Otherwise, Sun Belt con was stifled by the prolonged Wate:r:gate crisis and now servatism will die." may be endangered if Ford's early actions, as they fear, mean he is taking a leftward turn... Every chance he gets, Reagan reminds his. audiences of the conservative 'man • "It's the New Look This Fall for the GOP," by Robert Comstock. Hackensack (N.J.) Record, September date' of 1972 and in his best Mr. Nice Guy manner ex 8,1974. Bergen County has tooditionally been New Jer presses the fervent hope that Ford will heed it. In this, sey's banner Republican county, the keystone to any suc however, he's a bit like a nightclub comic who modestly cessful statewide GOP victory. This year, however, the holds up the palni of one hand to his audience to stop the county GOP faces possibly devastating election results, applause while surreptitiously beckoning them with the including the loss of the county government and the other to continue," writes Dickenson. Unless Ford turns threatened defeat of U.S. Rep. William B. Widnall (R- right, Reagan implies, he might cba!llenge the President 7th), who, if reelected, would be the ranking Republican for the 1976 nomination or move to start a third, con in Congress. "Bergen Republicans have more than Water servative party. Dickenson quotes Mississippi' GOP Chair gate rub-off working aaginst them. Their former county man Clarke Reed as observing, "We hope Reagan won't leader, Nelson G. Gross, is appealing his conviction of ever have to run," but also as expressing displeasure at illegal fund-raising procedures. Gross's protege and suc early progressive gestures of the ·Ford Administration. cessor; Anthony J. Statile, is scheduled to stand trial on similar charges this fall. And three. truckloads of-party and country records are still in the United States at • "Flournoy's Reaction to Conservatives' BId," by torney's office, threatening to burst with a new round of Michael Harris. San Fnmclsco Chronicle, September 11, indictments at any time." Despite these infirmities, County 1974. "Key leaders in the Republican Party's conservative GOP Chairman Richard J. Vander Plaat has managed to wing made an unsuccessful effort early this year to win patch together warring GOP factions in a united cam concessions from gubernatorial candidate Houston I. paign effort to maintain county control. Flournoy in exchange for their support . . . The crucial mom~t at the meeting came when Holmes Tuttle, mil lionaire Los Angeles auto dealer who has been closely • "Sen. Baker's Tilnetable Upset By Selection of identified with all of Reagan's campaigns, asked what Rockefeller," by Tim Wyngaard. Memphis Press-SclmitB.r, Flournoy was prepared to do about 1976. At that point, August 2, 1974. The selection of Nelson Rockefeller as Peninsula industrialist David Packard intervened. Pack Gerald Ford's norilinee to be vice president has delayed ard, former assistant secretary of defense in the Nixon the national political ambitions of Tennessee. Sen. Howard Administration and Flournoy's most prominent early Baker, Jr. (R). In order to better prepare himself for 1980, backer, declared there would be no disc\lSsion whatever Baker is likely tQ seek a seat on the Senate Foreign Rela about the-1976 campaign. The meeting would be confined, tions Committee. "Baker's resulting immersion in foreign Packard insisted, to the 1974 campaign for governor of affairs not only would provide him with vital training in California." As a result of Flournoy's refusal to deal in a weak area of his background, but it also would gain him presidential politics, concludes Harris, "the struggle for headlines." Comments Wyngaard, "If they sw.:vive until party leadership between conservatives, who tend to then, Baker and Sen. Charles Percy of Illinois [whose support Reagan, and moderates, who are generallly more presidential campaign has also been discontinued] will be attuned to Flournoy, is expected to continue past election among the familiar faces of the national GOP - two of day." their party's elder statesmen in Congress." • "GOP Leaders Desire New Wllson Campaign," by • "Dlvide4 Democratic Leaders Begin Bally Around Vic Ostrowidzki. Albany Times-Union, September 15, 1974. Blanton," by William Bennett. Memphis Commercial Ap "With few exceptions, New York Republican leaders be pea.I, August 18, 1974. Tennessee Democrats are truly lieve that incumbent Gov. Malcolm WIlson will be soundly concerned about the possible devastating effect the elec beaten this November by Brooklyn Democratic U.S. Rep. tion of Rep\lblican Lamar Alexander as governor might Hugh Carey if Wilson's low key campaign isn't drastically have on their party. The election this year is being com officials also believe that unless Wilson offers 'new, bold, pared to that of Democrat Frank Clement in 1952. Clem and imaginative' proposals, something he insists he won't ent and associate Buford Ellington played musical chairs do, he will take with him scores of Republican candidates with the gubernatorial post for the next 18 years. Like for the legislature and local offices," writes Ostrowidzki. Ellington, Alexander managed the first gubernatorial cam He quotes one Republican official as saying about Wilson, paign of the man who may turn out to be his predecesS9r, "Observing him campaign is about as exciting as watching Gov. Winfield Dunn (R). And like Clement and Ellington, paint dry." Wilson's campaign style contrasts unfavor the gubernatorial post might revert to Dunn again in 1978 ably with that of his predecessor, former Gov. Nelson if Alexander wins this year. Commenting on the weak Rockefeller and with Carey, whom GOP officials are afraid appeal of the Democratic gubernatorial nominee among will cut heavily into upstate Republican pluralities. Re". blacks and liberals, Bennett observes, "The upshot of it all publican officials are also distressed about the failure of is that (former U.S. Rep. Ray) Blanton, viewed as an the Wilson campaign to get off the ground, Wilson's re underdog even by many Democrats who desperately want fusal to comment on the Nixon pardon, and the governor's their party's nominee back in the driver's seat, can yet inability to alter his low-key image. RIPON FORUM Published semi-monthly by the Ripon Society, 509 C Street N.B., Washing ton, D.C. 20002. Second class postage paid at Boston, Massachusetts.