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ELECTION SHOWS NO MAJOR TREND Duffy of Connecticut Hartke holds slim edge Two of the contests that are vote margin. With 80% of the In the 3rd district of Inc.ia ta of special interest to the Notre vote reported, Vance Hartke had which includes South Bend, Dame campus are the Senatorial received 772,000 votes to John Brademas won an easy vic­ election between Vance Hartke Roudebushes 768,000 votes. tory over Donald Newman. and Richard Roudebush and the None of the networks had Brademas was projected to win Congressional race between John projected a winner at this lime by approximately 20,000 votes. Brademas and Donald Newman. and all of them believed that the This area is traditionally demo­ cratic and the Brademas victory Indiana is the scene of one of winner could not be declared un­ was expected. the closest of the Senate races. til the early morning. In it, Democratic incumbent Evidently the candidates lelt The Democrats swept all of Vance Hartke is battling Rep­ the same way Hirtke went to St. Joseph County. Among the resentative Richard Roudebush. bed at 1 a.m. and will not make casualties was former Notre The vote promises to go down to a statement until morning. Dame security chief Elmer Sokol the wire. Roudebush announced that he who was defeated in his bid for At 2 a.m. the two candidates re-election to the office of Coun­ will have nothing to say until the Sucessfully re-elected Congressman John Brademas were separated by only a 4000 morning. ty Sheriff. Vol. V., No. 40 THE Serving the Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College CommunityOBSERWednesday, November 4, 1970 ELECTION SHOWS NO MAJOR TREND Duffy of Connecticut. In addi­ In the sixteen key senate elec­ The Republican gains in the his early evening lead over chal­ In the undecided races Vance tion, with 85% of the vote re­ tions in which President Nixon three democratic Senate seats, lenger Frank Morrison and in­ Hartke held a 51-49% lead in In­ porting in New York Conserva­ laid his personal prestige on the were offset by a narrow victory cumbents Vance Hartke (Dem.) diana with 92% of the vote re­ tive candidate James Buckley, line, Republican candidates won by Rep. John Tunney over in­ in Indiana and Robert Taft ported. Roman Hruska also led who although not openly en­ only three of the races and were cumbent Republican George (Rep.) in Ohio, maintain their by a 5 149% margin with 59% of leading in only two others, while dorsed by Nixon was considered Murphy and the landslide vic­ close leads, the predicted Repub­ losing I 1. However, Nixon num­ to have his endorsement- led tory of Adlai Stevenson 111 over lican gain in the Senate is only the vote in. In Ohio, Robert Taft bered among his victims liberal Democrat Richard Ottinger 39% incumbent Republican Ralph one seat, leaving the Democrats held a slight margin over his op­ democratic candidates Albert to 37%,with deserted Republi­ Tyler Smith. with a projected majority of ponent Howard Metzenbaum, Gore of Tennessee, Joseph Ty- can Charles Goodell trailing with Provided that Republican Sen­ 56-44. 51 -47%, with 83% of the vote in. dings of Maryland, and Joseph 24%. ator Roman Hruska maintained The over-all pattern indicated In Alaska, the Republican that Nixon would have four new Stevens was leading his Demo­ Senators who would be likely to cratic opponent Kay 53% to support his position (Buckley with only 6% of the total vote reported. ZPG’s abortion program in New York, G. Beall from Maryland, Bensten from Texas, In Illinois, with 68% of the and William Brock from Tenn.), vote in, Stevenson had gained and three Senators which would advocates liberal code 59% of the vote. However, he be less likely to support him by Kevin McGill Dr. William Shriever, a gyne­ was leading in southern Illinois, Five authorities from the Uni­ that up to 21 weeks the fetus is (John Tunney from California, versity and from South Bend definitely non-viable, but that cologist, appealed to a “morality Stevenson from Illinois and spoke last night to an overflow some would allow abortion until of starvation,” claiming that the Laughton Chiles from Florida). (Continued on page 8) audience at the Planner Hall Pit the twenty-ninth week. A mem­ world population is growing too on various aspects of abortion. ber of the audience later ques­ rapidly for its own survival. “By The program, sponsored by the tioned the validity of this help­ the year 5100,” he said, “the Political campaigns Notre Dame Biology Depart­ lessness as a measure for lack of population, if it continues as it ment and Zero Population humanity. He remarked that no does now, will have consumed find campus support one who is alive can hope to the matter of the earth and the Growth, presented arguments UPI — Have students, who survive for long. sun will be expanding at the candidates with one of the and ideas on both sides of the ■tuned in and turned on to pol­ ethical and psychological consid­ Fr. Charles Sheedy took it speed of light.” Dr. Shriever also largest and cheapest supplies of itics last spring, dropped out? drudge labor available, even erations of abortion and its im­ upon himself to present the spoke of a number of abortion A Princeton professor believes though the expectations of the pact on society. Catholic moralistic view of abor­ most of them never turned on in movement have not been fully The first speaker, Dr. Kenyon tion. The head of Notre Dame’s methods both in use now and under experimentation. the first place. realized. Tweedell, head of Notre Dame’s Theology Department,cited the Mrs. Melba Laird, from the A Georgetown University Prof. Henry Bienen of Prince­ Biology Department, gave a bio­ differences between law and South Bend Mental Health sophomore says students, like ton University, co-director of logical definition of abortion as morality and stated that the moral solution to abortion might Clinic, said that “there is no evi­ many adults, are suffering from the Movement for a New Con­ “the induced removal of a non- apathy. differ from the legal solution. He dence that abortion as such gress, estimated that as many as viable fetus from the womb.” A conservative student leader felt that in all cases the moral, creates psychological problems 50,000 students from about 40 The major difficulty, he said, is says candidates want nothing to the “inward imperative,” must in the mothers.” She called abor­ cooperating schools are partici­ in defining the duration of the do with student volunteers be­ be followed on the individual tion a “people problem” and pating in campaigns for antiwar non-viability of the fetus, or the cause of voter resentment level, but that morality is not said that it should be solved by a candidates. age the fetus must attain to al­ towards campus violence. low it to survive as a premature subjective but is an art that is woman and her doctor. A priest Whatever the reason, a newly At the other end of the polit­ child outside the womb. He said absolutely right or wrong. (Continued on page 3) silent majority of American stu­ ical spectrum, Conservative dents is sitting out the 1970 James Buckley says 6,000 stu­ election campaign, even on cam­ dents are working in his New Finance Committee: a Proposal puses where they have been York Senate campaign and the given time off from classes to by Greg Rowinski and to the Student Union. Stu­ fy where the cuts should be Young Americans for Freedom participate. The Finance Committee dent Government’s projected made, according to Weber, but it YAF in Washington estimates The massive mobilization of will propose a budget of share would be $13,100. The was assumed that the cut would that “tens of thousands” of cam­ students to work in campaigns $65,094 to the Student Senate, Student Union’s budget includesbe made in the allocations to the pus conservatives are active in for antiwar candidates, which according to Stay Senator Pat a $15,000 increase over last CAC and, the Academic Commis­ other areas. some observers foresaw after the Weber. The Committee put the year. The increase is a direct re­ sion. “There will be some The concensus seems to be widespread campus protests over finishing touches on what Weber sult of the placing of the Cul­ kicking in the Senate,” accord­ that, although many students are Cambodia last May, has not called a “lean” budget after a tural Arts Commission within ing to Weber over this allocation, disillusioned and the war issue materialized. 3-hour meeting last night. Weber the Union. The three component since the CAC in the past has has been defused, there is just as Nonetheless, a cadre of many suspected that there would be groups of the CAC, Cinema ‘71, budgeted losses with some of much political activity if not thousands of young men and bickering in the Senate over Sophomore Literary Festival, their programs. women - both conservatives and more than in the 1968 “chil­ some of the allocations, and in­ and Contemporary Arts Festival, The Hall Presidents’ Council liberals - have been ringing door­ dren’s crusade” of Eugene dicated a number of places will receive larger budgets this will face a $1500 cut. Weber ex­ bells, stuffing campaign litera­ McCarthy. The difference is that where some “fat could be cut year, since they will be more ac­ plained that the Committee saw ture into envelopes and manning McCarthy . “children” are not away.” tive than last year.
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