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Which, I suppose, leaves responsibility with the candidate, who entered the race only five months before he withdrew. But that may not be fair either, because the top four finishers had been running for six years, two years, 12 years, and three years, respectively. Who should have foreseen that our electoral process actually begins at some time before the previous election is held? Certainly this is not what the founding fathers envisioned when they set out to create a fluid democracy, sensitive to an everchanging electorate...
...Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) an original supporter of the bill who withdrew out of public pressure, has said that with a few amendments S-1 could be workable. Spokesmen for the American Civil Liberties Union claim that only with 2600 amendments would the bill be palatable. S-1 is so packed with repressive measures that it should not even be debated on the senate floor. The bill should be scrapped immediately and a new crime commission established to draw up a just criminal code...
...Saudi Arabia's restrictive policies have not changed. As recently as October 1975, the Saudi government withdrew from an agreement with Johns Hopkins University to establish a medical school in Saudi Arabia when Hopkins submitted a list of site committee members that included the name of a Jewish physician. It's reasonable to assume that the phrase "if you're qualified" in the Aramco ad means, among other things, "if you're not Jewish...
...candidate-and largely unknown. Mo won a scant 5.9% of the vote. For Shriver, Iowa was even more of a disaster. With the Catholic vote lost to Carter, he garnered 3.3% of the vote. Though he was not involved in the Iowa caucuses, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford withdrew from the presidential race last week, citing trouble raising funds and the "ordeal of running a campaign...
...wouldn't you know it, after everything is all set and finished, the old clerk had a paralytic attack," recalls then councilor Eddie Crane '35. And as the stick froze in his hand for what seemed like hours, one of the brief majority quickly withdrew his vote. Nobody had five. The balloting would continue...