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Ford Presidential Library active and fuming for weeks-or to finish to the wire last week to avoid a full the trial on schedule withQJJ.:J-t ..uNuiJO<!i@~a"'"'~s""t----- scale confrontation ~een Meany's timony. Whatever choice, the de- ,__,.. _us Convention men and the refo~. Strauss and oth fendants might have ded grounds for er party moder;r(es hope they can turn appeal if they were c · ~ ~ heady Democratic sweep in the Kansas 9(y convention into a show t \~s elect' party's mid- case for ~ty unity, for potential Presi BLOOPERS: conve · Kansas City this week dential candidates-Senators Henry Jack e an occasion for biumphant son and Lloyd Bentsen and Rep. Morris Butz of the Jok ~~o---erness . Instead, it has the poten Udall will be there-and perhaps for tial for a divisive tug of war between an economic program that will impress In Washington, they were eing party reformers l!lld more traditional the American people. "If we don't," called the joint Chiefs of gaffe-Gen. Democrats-particularly old-line labor warned Ohio's Democratic Cov. John George Brown for hi~ slurs about -leaders. The decisions to be made, on Gilligan, "they will have every reason to "Jewish influence" in the nation, and such complicated questions as convention reject the party's leadership:• Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz for a "quotas" and · primary-election proce trip of the tongue that was widely de dures, could well change the make-up ELECTIONS: nounced as an insult to the Pope. A~ a and character of the nation's majority breakfast meeting with reporters in party for years to come. More immediate 'Landslide' Durkin Washington, the Secretary airily dis ly, the convention will }x, a litmus test missed Pope Paul VI's criticism of birth of the Democrats' abilijy to put aside New Hampshiremen pride themselves control as a means of combating the ideological differences and pull them- on doing only as much as is needed, world's increasingly serious food short- selves together for au effective Presiden but Democrat John Durkin very nearly tial campaign in 197.ft The mid-term bonvention, unprece dented in party history, was planned to draw up the fi¥t legally binding charter ever adopted -by a major American po litical party7and that itself is a key to the currel)( controversy. Until now, the nationall>emocratic Party has been little more than a coalition of state parties that got )6gether every four years to nomi nal;¢ a Presidential candidate. But re f</mers who dominated George Mc G\>vem' s Presidential campaign two years a~.bave been pressing for a more power ful, strimtw:ed national organization. As they see it, stron central authority would · ve opment of illiim~stft'tK!i....au._~ ey policy questions while 'f8&:eing 1, Democratic organizations to 1boiqg in more minority voters, women and yOung people. "Politics is not a simple busine~ of representing mainstream America," says Minnesota's Democratic Rep. Don ald M. Fraser, one reform spokesman. That kind of talk infuriates AFL-CIO boss George Meany and other old-line labor leaders, who feel that mainstream interests (and their own influence) are Butz: Chief of gaffe being shortchanged. Some are ope_plr' The Durkins: A ten-vote mandate threatening to walk out, tak,i,Q.g 'Wlion age. Quipped Butz-in a mock Italian money and mm:tpOWeJ wirhthem. Alex gauged his effort too fine in his race accent-"He no playa da game, he no ander Barkan, head of the AFL-CIO po with Republican Rep. Louis C. Wyman maka da rules." litical arm, sees "a growing feeling among for the state's vacant Senate seat. The Butz quickly told the newsmen that union leaders arol.l!lld the cbuntry that we first count showed Wyman, 57, had won the line was "off the record." But The ought to say, 'The hell with the Demo by 528 votes. But Durkin, 38, demanded New York Daily News printed it anyway,Jj cratic Party,' and disengage ourselves ..." a recount and last week became the up and the uproar was immediate. Italian-V' Ban: The most explosive issue at set winner-by ten votes. American politicians and Roman Catholic Kansas City will be quotas for women The final tally was the closest ever in leaders called for Butz's prompt removal and minorities at national nominating a Senate contest-110,924 to 118,914- from office. conventions-with the Meany forces fight- and it marked the first time New Hamp Butz's aides protested that he was ing for a ban on all such formulas while shire has elected two Democratic sena only repeating a joke that had made the the reformers defend compromise Ian tors since the 1850s. Wyman may still rounds of the recent world food con- guage, endorsed by the Democratic gov appeal to the state's Ballot Law Commis ference in Rome, and Butz himself emors, that seems to permit voluntary sion and even the Senate itself. For now, issued a statement regretting that his but not "mandatory" quotas. Labor and Durkin's win increased the Democrats' remarks had been misinterpreted. But other cenbist Democrats also oppose lopsided majority ih the Senate-raising it as President Ford saw it, that wasn't reform-backed clauses that would give to 62 to 38, a gain of four .seats. For his enough. He called Butz to the Oval the national party control over state part, "Landslide" Durkin- a lawyer and Office and told him that the statement primary elections and power to deter former insurance commissioner- feels was "inadequate." At that, Butz re- mine who is qualified to participate in that a mandate is a mandate, by ten issued the statement, with one addition: local party affairs. votes or 10,000. ''I'm very happy," he ex " ... and I sincerely apologize for any Democratic National Chairman Robert claimed, "and I'll serve for every single part I played in it." Strauss and his aides were working down citizen of this state." 40 Newsweek, December 9, 1974 I [ i BUSINESS-INDUSTRY POLITICAL ACTION l ~ ' COMMITTEE l (BIPAC} -I BUSINESS-INDUSTRY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE {BIPAC) OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS FOR 1975 Burt F. Raynes CHAIRMAN Chairman Rohr Industries, Inc. Chula Vista, California Robert L. Humphrey PRESIDENT President Washington, D.C. Richard A. Young SECRETARY-TREASURER President Bemis Company, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota DIRECTORS JOHN H. BATTEN President Twin Disc. Inc. Rcicint:, Hisconsin CARROLL H. BLANCHAR Chairman Public Service Co. of Indiana Plainfield, Indiana JAMES M. BOYD Vice President Southwest Forest Industries Phoenix, Arizona BENNETT A. BROWN President Citizens & Southern Holding Co. Atlanta, Georgia ROBINSON S. BROWN, JR. Chairman Brown-Forman Distillers Corp. Louisville, Kentucky PAUL H. BROYHILL President B ~ 1 ~ Furniture Industries Leno1r , • _.r_: • ..:-..-:> ... in 2 JAMES CASHMAN, JR. President Cashman Enterprises Las Vegas, Nevada JAMES A. CHAPMAN, JR. President Inman Mills Inman, South Carolina EUGENE H. CLAPP II President . ·- Penobscot Capital Investment Co. Boston, Massachusetts MARTIN J. CONDON III President Conwood Corporati on Memphis, Tennessee EDWARD B. CROSLAND Senior Vice President American Telephone & Telegraph New York, New York *ARCHIE K. DAVIS Winston--Salem North Carolina E.M. deWINDT Chairman Eaton Corporation Cleveland, Ohio J. ROBERT FLUOR Chairman Fluor Corporation Los Angeles, California JOHN H. GERSTENMAIER President Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Akron, Ohio LLOYD E. HAIGHT Vice President & General Counsel J.R. Simplot Company Boise, Idaho RICHARD L . HAWKES Vice Pr sident Keyes F ibre Company Waterville, Maine 3 MELVIN C. HOLM Chairman Carrier Corporation Syracuse, New York CASS S. HOUGH President Recreation Products Group Victor Comptometer Corporation Rogers, Arkansas ROBERT L. HUMPHREY President BIPAC Washington, D.C. MILTON L. KAPP Chairman Interstate Power Company Dubuque, Iowa KENNETH C. KELLAR Vice President & Chief Counsel Homestake Mining Company Lead, South Dakota *JOSEPH B. LANTERMAN Chairman Amsted Industries, Inc. Chicago, Illinois *HERMAN W. LAY Chairman, Executive Committee PepsiCo, Inc. Dallas, Texas EARL T. LUFF President Lincoln Steel Corporation Lincoln, Nebraska W.F. MARTIN Chairman Phillips Petroleum Co. Bartlesville, Oklahoma J. CLIFFORD MILLER, JR. Chairman Miller Manufacturing Co., Inc. R ichmonc~, VirqL. HE~ '"l' S General Counsel Gulf Oil Corporation Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 4 HAROLD S. MOHLER Chairman Hershey Foods Corporation Hershey, Pennsylvania E.A. MORRIS Chairman Blue Bell; Inc. Greensboro, North Carolina W.P. McMULLAN, JR. President D~posit Guaranty National Bank Jackson, Mississippi C. NRIL NORGREN President C.A. Norgren Company Littleton, Colorado GEORGE W. O'CONNOR President Montana Power Company Butte, Montana BRUCE F. OLSON Chairman Rockford, Illinois R.D. POINDEXTER Chairman Superior Iron Works & Supply Co. Shreveport, Louisiana *BURT F. RAYNES Chairman Rohr Industries Chula Vista, California DAVID W. RICHMOND Partner Miller & Chevalier Washington, D.C. KINSY M. ROBINSON Chairman Washington Water Power Co. Spokane, Washington 5 ROYCE H.