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...abortion restrictions and gun control. Church is most noted for his foreign policy stands, however, and he appears particularly vulnerable because of his votes for the Panama Canal treaty and his attempts to restrict the activity of U.S. intelligence agencies. He has also not been helped by a remark he made a few years ago upon returning from a visit to Cuba: he referred to Fidel Castro as a personal friend. By raising an uproar about the Russians in Cuba, Church will improve his standing in Idaho. Said one Church backer in Boise last week: "Frank has changed from...
...neutral. The President felt that it was advantageous to us to expose [the brigade] at this time to embarrass Castro." This was a reference to the meeting of the nonaligned nations. Carter almost certainly was only trying to find a bright side to the controversy, but his remark about embarrassing Castro seemed to coincide strangely with speculation by a number of observers that the Administration had released the information about the Soviet brigade to discredit Castro among the nonaligned nations...
Miss Lillian also said she had no regrets about her comment last week that if Kennedy sought the nomination she hoped nothing would happen to him. She said she made the remark out of motherly concern and that newsmen covering her speech had to pick out something, so they took it out of the clear blue...
Hooray for Yasser Arafat for his super remark: "The real terror is the occupation itself...
...reads literary potboilers, he said. When? "I read in the bathroom." He disclosed that when in Washington he keeps a diary: "It's amazing how detailed mine is." When a reporter recalled that Mark Twain had called Congress the only "distinctly native criminal class," Carter joked that the remark was "very perceptive-but remember, it was Mark Twain who said...