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Show 10 A DESERET NEWS, Wednesday, April 30, 196? day Electoral ef brm, Solon Says direct WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Birdi Bayh, spearheading the Senate drive' for electoral reform, today in warned .against delay implementing direct popular elections. He said it could in the lf72 presibackfire dential race. achieved ' The seem to plicable ., elections by 1972. be could fective date would come one year after the Jan. 21 following ratification by the nec- -' essary 38 states. . moratorium would make it almost inapto 1972, Bayh said. The formula was designed give Congress and the states a chance to pass implementing legislation establish-- i n g voters qualifications, methods of listing on ballots, and how the votes are to be counted and Announced. Hep. William hi. McCulloch, ROhio, Vahklng Republican said it on the committee, would take prompt action by the states for it to be ef loo tive in 1972. But McCulloch and committee chairman Emanuel Celler, It seems from our experience in 1968 that 1972 might to be worse. We can really have a backfire in 1972, V he said, if no candidate received a majority of the electoral vote. The House committee, making the first move on electoral reform in 13 years, approved 28 to 6 a constitutional amendment that would supplant the electoral system with direct election of a presi, Bayh, chairman of the Senamendate constitutional ments subcommittee, said adoption of the direct popular flections by the Hods JudicT-ar- y Committee Tuesday was ,"8 significant milestone. But Bayh said he was disturbed by the formula that could until delay implementation after the 1972 election. dent. It would also provide a runoff election if no candidate received 40 per. cent of the vote. 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Laird who have insisted no I: program are identical to those of the President and the Secretary. I agree with them that the Safeguard system is essential to the national security and that it would be prudent to proceed with the first phase as announced. As advocated by Nixon, deployment would begin by installing two ABM sites in 1 Montana 11 North Dakota ?nM ??ar Purchasing land for 10 additional ones. Packard told newsmen after meeting with GOP senators Tuesday that the purchase of the 10 additional sites was not absolutely essential this year. A Defense Department Jerry W. Fried-hel- compromise Is in sight. The Pentagon statement on Packard's behalf said; My on views the Safeguard -- 2 New Proposals 5 For Ailing Press i H ' WASHINGTON (AP) Edward W. Brooke, has introduced two amend- inents to the pending Newspa- per Preservation Act which would provide further relief from a recent Supreme Court decision. 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