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...lawman, Philadelphia's District Attorney Arlen Specter was almost to Blackstone born. He has officially been a law enforcement officer since the age of three, when the sheriff of Sedgwick County, Kans., deputized him during a visit and won young Specter fleeting fame in Ripley's Believe It or Not. In 1964, as one of the youngest (he was then 34) investigators with the Warren Commission, Specter developed the report's cental "single-bullet" theory of the Kennedy assassination. Then, back in Philadelphia, Specter shifted political allegiance from liberal Democrat to liberal Republican, won handily...
...Philadelphians doubt that Specter will win. Polls by Psephologist E. John Bucci, who predicted the gubernatorial victories of both William Scranton and Raymond Shafer, peg Specter as a 2-to-l favorite over any other candidate. Meanwhile, the Democrats, badly split after five years of lackluster leadership, face a furious primary dogfight...
...Specter's mayoral qualifications are exemplary: as assistant attorney general, he singlehandedly reformed Philadelphia's corrupt magisterial system and convicted three errant magistrates (TIME, Oct. 1, 1965); as D.A. he initiated a round-the-clock police court to speed justice for minor offenders and won Negro support by padlocking dives in "the jungle" of North Philadelphia. Previously backed by the Americans for Democratic Action despite his party switch, Specter also has the wholehearted support of Philadelphia's Republican Boss William Meehan...
...Specter wasted no time last week in getting his campaign under way. Tate's government-by-crony, he said, produces underlings who "take direction by tantrum." To cope with Philadelphia's problems of poverty, housing, race relations, retaining and attracting industry, he added, "you need imagination and execution at the top municipal levels. We don't have that here...
Even if American students can forgive the NSA--as the first week's reaction shows they might--things will not be so simple in countries where the CIA is something of a specter. In fact, foreign students who came to the United States under NSA exchange programs are now in danger of being accused by their own governments of espionage. NSA leaders realize that the organization has become highly suspect to foreign students as well as to their governments. When the story broke, they began a frenetic letter-writing campaign to explain the nature of the ties to leaders...