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Friday, October 29.1976
University Dally Kansan
INDEPENDENTS DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS
If a major concern is adequate funding for the University of Kansas.
THINK!
We've had three good years.The legislature fulfilled a commitment. University students, faculty, staff have done a great job in building the University image yet many legislators have other priorities for tax money. It won't be so easy in'77.
Senator ARDEN BOOTH has 6 years experience in the Senate. He's bridged gaps between Democrats and Republicans, and between rural and urban areas. He's a leader. He gets things done. He listens and is listened to. He'll get adequate funding for the University.
This is no time to send to Topeka an inexperienced person of the minority party. If a major concern is adequate funding for the University:
X VOTE X TUESDAY
X ARDEN BOOTH X
X SENATOR X
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Tunney's troubles aren't over yet
In his six years as senator, John Tunney, D-Calif., has put together what many think is a comprehensive bill.
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The 42-year-old sponsored 38 bills during his first senate term—more than any other freshman senator—which included an amendment to cut off secret funds to Angola that Henry Kissinger would most likely want to forget.
He also was one of the first senators to call for the resignation of former president Richard Nixon, and according to his Democratic senatorial colleague from California, Alan Cranston, he was the first senator "to lay a glove on the Klein-Diem (former attorney general) and L. Patrick Gray (former chief of the FBJ)."1
Sounds as if Tumney's 1976 re-election bid is in the bag, right?
The same state that has drawn GOP interest among Hollywood figures (Ronald Reagan, Pat Botee and Efram Zimbabwe) to mention a few) has a new Republican star.
But no.
He is 70-year-old Samuel I. Hayakawa, a semanticist and celebrity from the campus.
It was Hayakawa, as president of San
Francisco State University, who jumped up on a sound truck during a student demonstration in the late '60s and cut off the amplifier. It's a stand manny won't forget.
What has Tunne and political experts puzzled, however, is how Hayakawa has so much support among voters. Throughout his campaign, he has selden taken major stands on issues. Instead, he is launching a campaign that is highlighted by a semantics of humor or, as Hayakawa himself puts it, "having a hell of a good time."
Hayakawa is small, but looks quite healthy for his age. His small, rounded face is highlighted by big, black, thick-trimmed eyebrows and a symbol of his gava as SFSU president.
Turnney is practically the opposite of Hayakawa in presence. He is tall and long-faced, and in a recent appearance with Democratic presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter, one wondered which of the two had the widest and whitest grin.
Tunney will stress to anyone that he's going to win this election, although he's also one of the first to admit that Hayakawa is hard to get a grip on.
Whenever Tunney tries to pin Hayakawa a statement Hayakawa says he has for the last time
"And it works," Tunney has said.
"Sometimes it's like punching a bag of smoke."
One topic that Hayakawa does like to talk about is racism.
He favors the way Japanese-Americans were treated in the United States during World War II.
"It's the best thing that ever happened," he says, "because it forced them out of their houses."
As a result, Hayakawa himself has been called a racist, some of the same radicals include Hayakawa.
Some criticize Hayakaay about his age and never having any political experience. "Dr. Sam" (as he calls himself) doesn't see it that way. He thinks his academic training and semantic background—from which he has studied foreign languages have been one long preparation for politics.
A poll conducted by Mervin Field of Field Research Corp, in the second week of October indicated that 24 per cent of the Democrats interviewed, indeed, planned on voting for Hayakawa. Sixteen per cent of Democrats, however, planned on voting for Tunney.
The most significant figures in the poll, though, were the ones that showed the race a deadlock, with 43 per cent of those in favour Timmy and 43 per cent favoring Hayakawa.
Extrovert challenges introvert in N.Y.
By MARK WOLFF
The New York race for the United States Senate puts a soft-spoken candidate against an outspoken one. James L. Buckley, the soft-spoken Republican-Conservative senator from New York, is competing with Senator Hillary Clinton, the outspoken former United States representative to the United Nations and now a member of the Harvard faculty.
Buckley is firmly entrenched in conservatism. His brother, William F. Buckley, is a nationally syndicated columnist and founder of the National Review, a publication noted for its conservative views.
Buckley, the senator, won his seat six years ago in a three-way race with 39 per cent of the vote. Buckley, from a wealthy New York family, became a vice president in his family's oil exploration business after completing Yale Law School.
Moyyanhua is a liberal Democrat who, at various times in his career, has flirted with other factions of that party. He has served in the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon administrations as an economic adviser. He served as ambassador to India and is best known for his vitriolic statements while serving in the United Nations.
The contest should prove to be an interesting one. The primary elections that led up to the nominations were fierce in both political camps. Buckley ran against Rep.
Peter Peyser of Westchester County and soundly defeated him 234,138 to 98,517. Buckley had offered some resistance to Peyser's primary candidacy by questioning the legitimacy of the petitions Peyaser had filed to be allowed to run. The discrepancy was ironed out, but Peyser's trial run failed nevertheless.
The Democratic primary race was a bit more crowded. Five contenders filled the primary ballot; Rep. Bella Abzug, D-N.Y., Moyhain's closest competitor, took 317,965 votes to Moyhain's 327,478; former Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark; New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer; and Abraham Hirschfeld, a building tycoon.
The race has focused on two main issues: taxes and social programs. Moynahan proposed that the responsibility for welfare be handed to the federal government. He also wanted states to pass a bill and favors more legislation to help the Northeast out of its economic troubles.
Buckley answers Moynihan's proposals as being too reliant on the federal government. He favors moving fiscal authority back to local communities where "taxayers have some degree of control over how their tax revenues are used, the economy has comeback potential if federal spending and taxes are sufficiently controlled to encourage private investment.
Buckley's support is strongest among low-income voters, surprising for a conservative, with Moynihan has 57 percent of the support of the over $2,000-a-year
Perhaps more important than the issues are the personalities and ideologies of the candidates. Buckley's conservatism and lackuster campaigning style have placed him in the position of challenger, instead of the leader he has cast Moynihan ira, the role of an ivory power professor who is unaware and unbothered of the people's desires.
group. A recent poll by Newbury indicated that women was absent 50 to 41 with nine per cent of the population.
And so began this name-calling campaign between the two candidates representing opposite ends of the political spectrum. Buckley has six years experience in the Senate. His Buckley Amendment, a piece of legislation supporting the individual's right to vote, is his personal records, is a definite asset, among the first to ask for former president Richard Nikon's resignation, another factor acting in his favor.
Shortly after winning the primary election, a reporter asked Moynhan his impression of Buckley's describing him as a professor. Moynhan replied in his chemical iconographic way: "He did! Well, it's begun, has it! I call it a conservative."
This year's Senate race will be an interesting one to watch nationwide, and all the more interesting in New York. Both candidates offer definite choices and neither can be accused of being the lesser of two evils.