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Liberal McCarthvites have control of the party--but barely. They realize consolidation and a strong issue-base are the only answers to the problem. To meet it, a reformists league--either tightly knit like the CDC or a non-partisan group like ADA--will get together after the election. McCarthy and Kennedy people never merged following the assassination, since the McCarthy slate had been elected in the May primary. Much of the Kennedy organization was out-of-state, leaving the McCarthy machine few with which to form a viable coalition. Re-electing Sen. Wayne Morse occupy most liberals this fall...
...spoke about the same things that he has been talking about since last November--the war, domestic ills and the style of government. After a half hour McCarthy left, while Joseph Rauh, the ADA and liberal leader, began a "pass the hat for Gene if you want to save the nation" pitch which may have raised...
...argues persuasively for a genuinely federal system. As he sees it, Quebec should surrender its demands for special status, and English Canada should give up its vision of Canada as an essentially English-dominated country. Trudeau also opposes economic nationalism and any strict limits on U.S. investment in Can ada, believes only that there should be guidelines to prevent U.S. and other foreign investment from undermining Canada's political independence...
...Vietnam. The recent departure of his two chief press aides, complaining that McCarthy was not addressing all the issues, along with the impending defection of advisor-speechwriter Richard Goodwin hint at the beginning of the breakdown of that rare but genial coalition of fairly radical anti-war students, ADA liberals, and Texophobes who had joined to support McCarthy in New Hampshire...
Meanwhile we will go on working for McCarthy--the Scientists and Engineers for McCarthy, the Massachusetts McCarthy for President Committee, the Massachusetts ADA, and all the rest. We will roll up as big a vote for him as we can in the Wisconsin and Massachusetts primaries. Then we will see where we are. George Wald Professor of Biology