CHARLES BARTLETT'S NEWS FOCUS ON WASHINGTON

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• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 1999
• Sequence Number: 95
• Publication Date: January 2, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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CPYRGHT
EWS FOCUS
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On Washington
store's management refused to call any of die" pi .l c '?l,los r'S Irl! the c' ,,i/11111d(' ti J
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Santa Monica a ;flit.) research center care itch gift to -most members of his staff was a set)
by the Air Force, has a contract 10 interview
is of two leather hound volumes containing his
all the Viet Cong prisoners taken in Viet speeches and papers during 1964. The books;
Nam. 1 he Rand esperts report that most of i have just been published by the Government .I
the VU prisoners describe the B-52 bombing Printing Office,
d scanffanrmg punf0ntent that the United !
States is inflicting, A -highly discofrtl'ortin;;
feature for the U.S. troops is the ijuininc-1
resisting strain of- malaria which is causingt
the evacuation of large numbers of Amzri-
cans. Scientists led by Dr. Robert Cottiey,
working on crash research at the National
Institutes of Health, are Hopeful that a comhi-;i
nation of pyroniethanine and long-acting sulfall
drugs will b
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hey ct hy
..a [loe i certain for another nionLh,
Situation in France
AMERICAN SPECIALISTS on
France do not -expect any swift changes
in President de Gaulle's policies as a con-
seguerrce of his election scare. The
change is rurlikely to come until the As-
sembly elections of 1967 draw near. But
political followers who have been riding
the Gaullist coattails are likely to shot'
greater independence in their voting in
the parliament. This could immobilize
the legislative machinery as time goes
on. U.S. pressure on France "[s focused
for the present on. restoring harmony
within the -Common Market so tltat.the
Kerinvdy _ 1(~ur lrlt'if f negotiations ''can
resume.
LBJ Gift Dilemma
PRESJJ)IjNT JOHNSON - discovered on
Christmas that he had not sent gifts to sonic
foreign digpitarics who had remembered him.
tie attempted through the State Department
Problems For RFK?
SEN. RO13ERT 17, KENNEDY'S ap-
purent disposition to let- New York
ge
or
Democrats pick their own,candidate for j
governor SOME lAIX of. changing the mate of
nest srrntlner carriespr?oblems ?
. for him. `The upstate county !carters are , the Central IntelligeaceAgency 1(s escape. tilt
so riled to taking orderly that they are hrol?ag'fncl;( disadvarftages that stem tYooi
-t the agency'
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ocratship, If he fail s policy, The change is resisted how
to push some Democrat hard for gayer- ever by iy ul ficials svho ilo iht that a nam
nor, he will be accused of wanting to
keep the Republicans In power so that change would diminish the. fears of Amen'
lie can rule in 1970 as a prelude to a can intelligence activities in the undevelopoy
presidential campaign. All the Democrats ale's' The CIA's director, Adm. 4Uillies
who are out for goverrroi have serious lttthurt7?;g to counter the pr-
i
s thrt[ morale at theagency
hcntlicaps and all have claims upon Ken 1
has saggce
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l ayng
Rockefeller will not he as easy to heat 1
j HU rey Reactio
as the polls intimate:
OBSF -,;XERS are s iced at the -t
Lang Set in Dual Role I f'e/winence of Iftihert Iliintphret"s reac-
MIKE MANSFIELD. Senate majority1 lion to the Galh(p finding that only 24
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that might spark an uprising among Senate 1tdert, He has firer! his public rela-;'
Democrats against the dual. powers o lions trait and appears iuteul rrpolr 0C.::
1_ouisiana Sen.`Russell Long as Finance Coll c'eleratili,q his quest for ntlruniat laic;
mittee chairman a n tJ`ibajority whip. Nos reaction seemed dispr'oporviollate to the
j senator is disposed to challenge Long's right; fact that he is unlikely to face the elee
to the two jobs now but many ?sa.y privately fatale as a candidate for President be
they will fight hard against Iris it he ever; fore 1972 and that he will have adequate
tries to take the party leader's post. chance, if he succeeds to the I'resideney
be fore !ben, to boost his popularity by
Sniping At Bailey his perfnrnranc'e in the While house.
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if he .should cmiitr'rre III, firirt,, (n (r
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