VOL. IX, No. 17 SEPTEMBER 15, 1973 FORUM 25 CENTS In a suit filed last October in U.S. District Court in Washington, Mrs. POLITICS: REPORTS Worden charged the Committee for the Re-election of the President, the hustings to unify his party. Said one Federal Bureau of Investigation, the NORTH ·DAKOTA top GOP leader, "He's been running Secret Service, the Fontainebleu, and harder in the past five months than the Republican National Committee he has in the past five years." with systematically diverting her calls. Callers were reportedly told by hotel FARGO, N.D. - Next year's North Although Gov. Link (D) has a operators that Mrs. Worden was not Dakota Senate race shapes up as a four-year term, his first months on registered - or asked if they were re­ tough contest between incumbent Sen. the job have not been impressive. One Republican leader described him as sponding to the newspaper advertise­ Milton Young (R) and former Gov. ment. William Guy (D). "the weakest governor we've had." Mrs. Worden's $1.125 million law­ Young, who will tum 77 next year, The Democrats' bright star may be the suit against the above agencies has hit has served in the Senate since 1945. young state tax commissioner, Byron a snag, however. Although journalists He is known as "Mr. Wheat" in the L. Dorgan. The liberal Dorgan may were told last year by hotel employees state and current record prices for that find he has nothing to lose and a good that the interference had been ordered commodity are not hurting the sen­ deal of name exposure to gain by by "Republicans," the whole respon­ ator's re-election chances. making a futile race against the pop­ ular U.S. Rep. Mark Andrews (R). sibility for the affair has now been Unlike Young, Guy has not yet an­ Andrews had been expected to move taken by the hotel's chief telephone nounced his campaign intentions. The up to the Senate if Young retired. As operator. According to Mrs. Worden, 53-year-old Guy is likely to exploit one North Dakota journalist said re­ the operator "now says under oath that age as a campaign issue. The power­ cently, "Nobody's beating Andrews­ she instigated the monitoring of my ful Farmers Union passed a resolution not for the next 30 years anyway." • calls on her own." at their spring convention indicating The chief operator lives in retire­ they would not support a candidate ment in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. How over 65. The resolution would pro­ or why she retired is not remember­ hibit support for Young but it would PHONE SERVICE ed by the hotel management, accord­ also preclude support for Sen. Quen­ ing to Mrs. Worden, herself a resi­ tin N. Burdick (D), a Farmers Union B 0 S TON - Remember Mrs. dent of Weston, Massachusetts. hero who comes up for re-election in Katherine Worden? She's the Mas­ Mrs. Worden, who is a political in­ 1976. Burdick is now 65. sachusetts anti-war activist who charged dependent, says she is flabbergasted" Neither Guy nor Young are slouches federal and Republican officials with by the sudden loss of memory by hotel at the ballot box. Young received 65 interfering with her phone calls after officials. They reportedly don't "re­ percent of the vote in 1968 while Guy she placed the following ad in the member" talking to reporters last got 54 percent in his last run for Miami Herald during the Republican August. "It's very frustrating. I can governor the same year. The former National Convention last August: hardly believe it," says Mrs. Worden Democratic state chief executive is Our President Needs Your Help. who reports that the chief operator hampered by a three-way split in his Because I am a citizen who wlexplainedly claimed she was trying own party, however - between fac­ cares deeply about the welfare to "help" Mrs. Worden. tions loyal to Guy, Burdick and cur­ of my country, I implore you Although her Own witnesses - rent Gov. Arthur A. Link. who have the chance to be such as Common Cause's John Gard­ A series of polls over the past five heard to convey your thoughts ner and columnist Mary McGrory _ years have indicated a close race be­ about this still escalating war to stand ready to testify to the phone tween Guy and and Young. A GOP­ the man who makes the deci­ monitoring, the positions of hotel em­ sponsored poll this spring indicated an sions. Your opinions can make ployees have stymied Mrs. Worden's edge for Guy, but the results have a difference. case. It has been "postponed without been kept more secret than presiden­ The ad requested readers to influ­ prejudice." Mrs. Worden hopes the tial tapes. A subsequent mail poll by ence the President to end the Indo­ .. dirty tricks" segment of the Ervin Sen. Young gave him a lead. china War. It also invited calls to Mrs. Committee hearings may bring out new Meanwhile, Young is out beating the Worden at the Fontainebleu Hotel, evidence about the incident, One major motivation for her suit Nom Brooklyn, profitted by the split­ seek election under a new party label, was to prove that "one person can ting of the liberal vote between Blum­ despite accumulation sufficient qualify­ take on. city hall and win." Mrs. enthal and Badillo as well as Biaggi's ing signatures, the new occupant of Worden is disappointed but stiIl hope­ credibility problems to capture 34 per­ Gracie Mansion appears certain to be ful. • cent of the primary vote. present comptroller. Under a new state law, there was Beame has been a good, if not in­ a runoff between Badillo and Bearne novative, fiscal manager for the city three weeks af.ter the initial primary. in the past. His capacity to provide NEW YORK CITY The campaign was rather colorless. more than an adequate caretaker man­ Both candidates tried to appeal to the agement in the future is undemon­ NEW YORK CITY - Gotham City middle class, and argued for more strated. • is destined for competent but lack­ police, and greater governmental ef­ luster leadership for the next four ficiency; there was no discussion of years: Barring acts of God, Abraham the great social problems facing the NEW MEXICO D. Bearne wiIl be elected the city's city. Beame easily swept the runoff, 105th mayor on November 6, 1973. winning four out of the five boroughs. The city has reverted to its tradition BadiIlo won in only the Black, Puerto SANTA FE - Both parties in New in which the Democratic nomination Rican neighborhoods, and liberal areas Mexico may have crowded primaries is tantamount to election. Bearne won of Manhattan. next year in the race to succeed Gov. ,that nomination in a June 26th run­ In November, Beame will face Bruce King (D), who cannot succeed off against U.S. Rep. Herman BadiIlo Biaggi, who is still on the Conserva­ hiinself. ' (D), capturing 61 percent of the vote tive Party line, Blumenthal, who re­ Among the Republicans in the race against Badillo's 39 percent. mains on the Liberal Party line, and may well be King's predecessor, mod­ Bearne has had 23 years experi­ Staten Island State Sen. John Marchi erate David Cargo. The former gov­ on the Republican line. Marchi de­ ence ~n municipal government. He was ernor had announced he was moving budget director under former Robert feated Lindsay in the Republican pri­ to Oregon after losing GOP senatorial F. Wagner, and then ran with him mary in 1969, and became the GOP primaries in both 1970 and 1972, but and was elected in 1961 as comptroller nominee this year following Gov. Nel­ remained in the state to practice law (the second most powerful position son Rockefeller's abortive attempt to after he failed to pass the Oregon bar in the city). Beame was the Demo­ make former Mayor Wagner the Re­ exam. Cargo's prospects for victory are cratic mayoral nominee in 1965, after publican-Liberal nominee. Marchi is still dim. Wagner stepped down, but was de­ articulate, intelligent, and fairly con­ The GOP frontrunner at this point feated in a hotly-contested election by servative. His low-key campaign is not is the party's unsuccessful candidate a liberal Republican Manhattan con­ likely to lead to success. His fate will for lieutenant governor in 1970, for­ gressman, John V. Lindsay. Bearne probably be shared by his more pro­ mer State Sen. Joe Skeen. Skeen, who spent the next four years in private gressive running mates: Thomas Gal­ has announced his candidacy, is one of business, and then, while Lindsay was vin will be defeated for City Council two former state Republican chairmen winning re-election in 1969, he was President by Paul O'Dwyer, a very who may make the race; the other is elected to his old post of comptroller. liberal Democrat who ran against Sen. the immediate past chairman, former Jacob Javits in 1968; Finance Admin­ Supreme Court Justice Tom McKenna. After Lindsay decided against an­ istrator Richard Lewisohn, one of the other race earlier this year, it seemed Former State Sen. Jack Eastham, few remaining Republicans in Lind­ an Albuquerque attorney, may well as though every Democrat in town was say's cabinet, faces a tough race running for mayor. Most dropped out give Skeen his closest competition for against Democratic State Sen. Harrison the nomination. The candidacy of Air due to lack of money and popular sup­ J. Goldin for comptroller. port until only four were left to bat­ Force Lt.