Peace Action to Emphasize Four Local Election Races

Peace Action, the Harvard anti-war political mobilization group set up during last Spring's Cambodian strike, met yesterday to organize for the November elections. They decided to concentrate on supporting anti-war candidates in four congressional districts around Cambridge.

Peace Action will also coordinate volunteers and transportation at Harvard for such out-of-state candidates as Joseph Duffey running for the Senate in Connecticut, former governor Phillip Hoff running for the Senate in Vermont, and Adlai E. Stevenson III 52 running for Senator in Illinois.

The two main concerns of the 30 or so people at the meeting were how to be effective in the election without becoming bogged in a bureaucracy, and how to regenerate some of the enthusiasm of last Spring.

Several members of the group expressed the hope that President Nixon would solve the latter problem for them with his television speech last night. Peace Action will try to mobilize Harvard and Radcliffe students for the following Congressional races:

Newton, where Democrat The Rev. Robert F. Drinan, S.J., dean of the Boston College Law School, is opposing Republican State Rep. John A. McGlennon and incumbent Rhillip Philbin, who announced yesterday he will run as a "sticker" (write-in) candidate;

Fall River-Wellesley, a gerrymandered district where Democrat Bert Yaffe is opposing moderate Republican incumbent Margaret Heckler;

the North Shore, where incumbent liberal Democrat Michael Harrington '58 is opposed by Republican Howard Phillips;

New Bedford, where Democrat Gerry Studds is opposing Republican incumbent Hastings Keith.

Martha J. Radlo '73 (498-5753) is coordinating Harvard community volunteers for the Drinan campaign, E. J. Dionne '73 (498-2129) for Yaffe, Randy S. Milden '73 for Harrington, and Rupert J. Simpson '73 for Studds.