Activists give support to peace incumbents
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The antiwar activists of the new politics are learning a maxim long accepted by practitioners of the old politics: it is easier to win by supporting incumbents than by trying to replace them.
Only four incumbents in Congress have been unseated so far this year in party primaries held in 18 states. The most conspicuous loser was the antiwar Sen. Ralph W. Yarborough (D-Tex.).
The movement of U.S. troops into Cambodia prompted some of the antiwar youth groups to try lobbying and electionering instead of demonstrating to change attitudes in congress about the Vietnam War.
Pre-Cambodia organizations such as Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) and Referendum 70 already were trying to make their weight felt in selective primary contests. Where they and their new allies contributed to victories, they won more often by helping to renomi-
nate incumbents than by defeating them.
Although ADA is not a single issue organization it is giving priority to termination of the war in Vietnam. In Democratic senatorial primary contests so far, ADA endorsed the winners in Illinois, Montana and New Jersey, and the losers in California, Pennsylvania, Texas and West Virginia.
In none of these states did the peace issue alone control the outcome.
Referendum 70 is recruiting volunteer campaign workers for "peace and new priorities" candidates who want them. Like ADA, the Referendum 70 Senate endorsements included Adlai E. Stevenson III, the Illinois Democratic winner, and Sen. Harrison A. Williams Jr., D., N.J.
Also with ADA, Referendum 70's list included Rep. George E. Brown Jr., who lost the California Democratic Senate nomination to Rep. John V. Tunney, and Norval Reece, a loser in the Pennsylvania Democratic senatorial primary.
Officials say nation faces energy deficit
TULSA, Okla. (UPI)—Former Texas Railroad Commission chairman William J. Murray Jr. says the nation is headed for an energy deficit that "will throw this nation out of its position of power leadership."
Murray is not the only one concerned over dwindling supplies of energy resources in the United States. There is, however, a great difference of opinion as to how the problem should be solved.
Many government officials lean to a slowdown in the rate of growth of energy use by a concerted effort to avoid wasting short supply resources.
Others in government advocate increasing rates of return so the energy industry-oil, natural gas and coal producers—can boost the supply to meet the demand. The Federal Power Commission leans in that direction.
Murray, meanwhile, says those outside the industries are drawing the wrong conclusions because they do not understand the facts.
"There is a gas shortage now," he says, "and it is rarely true that you can divide the search for oil and gas."
He adds it must also be made clear the nation has no net efficient surplus or reserve producing capacity.
"On that point," he said, "a major national policy error could turn since it was reserve producing capacity upon which the President's task force recently based its conclusions."
Other areas of misunderstanding, he said, include presumption by the task force regarding Canada, "which in truth is a net importer of crude oil," and Venezuela, an area the task force considered a safe source of supply.
He said Venezuela in 1969 drilled fewer wells than New Mexico.
"Also," Murray said, "those outside the producing states must be made to understand that the function of state conservation bodies actually serves the national welfare more than anything else by protecting the sources of supply so that maximum production may be realized from known reserves.
"This nation must be made to understand that state conservation regulation is not a price tool," he says.
Murray, now president of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association.
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(TIRPO) says if the facts pertaining to the energy crisis were understood the importance of independent domestic producers to the welfare of the nation "would be apparent."
"Washington must have the facts and their impact on the consumer interest," he says.
The energy crisis is also causing problems in the current campaign to improve the environment.
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