McGovern Campaigns Face Money and Structure Hurdles in California
In California and other states, McGovern organizers confront funding gaps and terrain unfamiliar to the national effort. The California drive targets about one million registrations with 14,000 new voters daily, while labor support grows in Colorado and Texas amid leadership reshuffles.
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Steven V. Roberts
New York Times News Service
Los Angeles
George S. McGovern
Thomas F. Eagleton
California
McGovern
William Hobby
Texas
Hubert Humphrey
San Francisco
Joseph Alioto
Philip Burton
Colorado
Evelyn Davidson
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Doris Banks
Humphrey
Miami
Denver
University of Colorado
Don O’brien
John White
Bob Armstrong
Miami Beach
Frances Farenthold
Dolph Briscoe
Eli Segal
South
Washington
John Siegenthaler
Nashville Tennessean
Kennedy
Fred Taugher
John Burton
Phil Isenberg
Sacramento
Gallup
Wisconsin
Democratic Party
Debt Ceiling Hike Sought Amid Budget Debate
The Nixon administration seeks a $15 billion debt-limit increase to $465 billion through June 19 1973 while proposing a $250 billion spending cap. Budget Director Caspar Weinberger warns the cap is broad and social security could be spared, but defense may not be shielded. Treasury Secretary Shultz and Fed Chair Burns favor cuts, with Democrats pressing to link the measure to tax loophole closures and inflation control.
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Washington
Nixon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Caspar Weinberger
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Arthur F. Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Shultz
Weinberger
Congress
Nixon courting Italian American voters on campaign swing
President Nixon made a surprise Sunday stop in Mitchellville Maryland at the 12th annual Italian Fall Festival to court Italian American and Catholic groups. He toured Villa Rosa Nursing Home with Catholic sponsors and joked about Italian blood before pledging respect for the elderly. He plans short, White House–centered campaign jaunts during Congress sessions.
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Gaylord Shaw
Washington
Nixon
White House
Camp David
Maryland
Mitchellville
Villa Rosa
Tricia Nixon Cox
Italy
Congress
Uganda says Tanzania invaded as troops recapture towns
Uganda asserted air and ground forces retook three towns seized by Tanzania in a drive to expel Asians. Tanzania denied invading, while Libyan diplomats and Uganda’s Idi Amin regime blamed British involvement to restore Milton Obote.
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Associated Press
Uganda
Tanzania
Milton Obote
Britain
London
Amin
Obote
Scientist Studies Flea Leaping Art Revealed
An international team of biologists has unveiled how fleas achieve their remarkable jump. The study explains the flea stores energy in a stretchable pad and releases it with a quick snap, producing leaps of up to eight inches and long distances, dwarfing human-scale equivalents.
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Democratic Study Group
House
Jane E. Brody
New York Times News Service
New York
Nature
Miriam Rothschild
K. Parker
Y. Schlein
S. Sternberg
Chinese Intellectual Visit to United States Possible
Source says for first time in PRC history a group of Chinese intellectuals may visit the United States within weeks. The delegation, mainly scientists and doctors, could include acupuncture demonstrations and resume contacts with American universities.
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Jean Leclerc DU Sablon
Peking
AFP
U.S
China
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