MAPA Breaks With Democrats Endorses Cranston for Senate
The Mexican-American Political Association at its Fresno convention rejected endorsing Humphrey for president with 130 voting no endorsement. The group backed Alan Cranston for the U.S. Senate 130 to 9 with 26 abstentions, and endorsed a grape boycott, bilingual education funding, and policies for Mexican-Americans including Vietnam peace aims.
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Los Angeles
Humphrey
Legislators Open Dual Sessions in Sacramento
California lawmakers reconvene for two simultaneous sessions one to review Reagan vetoes and a second unlimited special session on disability and workers compensation. Reagan plans talks with Republican and possibly Democratic leaders on property tax relief urban school aid and Bay Area Rapid Transit financing as the Assembly and Senate meet at noon.
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Hugh M. Burns
Fresno
Wallace Campaign Office Hit By Fire Bomb in Paducah
A fire bomb damaged George Wallace campaign headquarters in Paducah Kentucky Sunday with no injuries. Police found a wick and a wine bottle inside the office after a patrol officer spotted the blaze.
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Ohio River City
Huge Rally for Delano Strikers
Hundreds of farm workers and supporters rallied in San Francisco to press grape growers to recognize the United Farm Workers as the bargaining agent. The march began at Mission Dolores Park after a Mass led by Father McCarthy and drew more than 40 organizations. The event kept up pressure amid a nationwide boycott of California table grapes, as growers call the picketing illegal secondary activity.
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Humphrey
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Cranston
Rafferty
Robert Gonzales
Catholic Council For
Delano Support Committee
Mission Dolores Park
Father McCarthy
St. Peter’s Parish
California Young Democrats refuse support for Humphrey at 1968 convention
At the California Federation of Young Democrats three day state meeting in Santa Monica they voted 210 to 50 to back no presidential candidate in 1968 unless Hubert Humphrey endorses immediate Vietnam war halt a phased U.S. troop withdrawal and a Vietnamese government. They also urged ending draft and aiding war resistors while Cranston urged reform of Chicago convention procedures.
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UPI
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Vietnam
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Alan Cranston
United States Senate
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Humphrey
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Hubert Humphrey
North Vietnam
Chicago
Canada
Bond Will Campaign for Negroes Peace
Julian Bond said he will spend most of the election campaign backing Negro and peace candidates rather than the party presidential slate. He remains bound by oaths to support the party nominee Hubert Humphrey. Cranston urged a debate between Rafferty and a Long Beach newspaper over WWII deferment and church records.
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Julian Bond
Georgia
Bond
Eugene J. McCarthy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Cranston
Max Rafferty
Long Beach
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