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Light. Only twice last week did McGovern abandon his slashing attacks on Nixon to set forth some proposals of his own. In New York, he detailed a program for combating crime with gun-control laws, additional foot patrolmen, tenant patrols, a "national light-the-streets" plan and other ideas. In Cleveland he turned to foreign policy (see following story). This week, in a half-hour national television address, he will spell out his specific plan for getting the U.S. out of Viet Nam. It will come almost exactly four years after Nixon's campaign speech in which he declared...
There he learned in group-encounter sessions that "I was the type of guy who always placed or showed but never won. In almost every project I ever undertook, I'd get very close to finishing it and then I'd abandon it. I'd never even read a book all the way through." Instructors from John A. Logan College in Carterville, Ill.., paid regular visits to the prison, so Taylor signed up for six courses, including biology, math and Western civilization. He got straight A's. Encouraged, he moved on into black studies, logic, electronics...
...themselves in the party center, backing either Humphrey or Muskie. Shirley Chisholm had announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination, with a spare and eloquent appeal for black support. Her entry into the race had upstaged the male members of the Congressional Black Caucus who were then forced to abandon their idea of promoting John Conyers, the handsome, young black Congressman from Michigan, as their candidate. Although officially neutral and internally divided, several Caucus members, led by Louis Stokes of Cleveland, favored, supporting Humphrey again, but this time, extracting concrete pledges from him in advance. The pledges were...
...reclaim the country, not abandon it." Allard K. Lowenstein, former congressman from Brooklyn, told a group of 60 people Monday night in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
...revolt against Norway's and Europe's Establishment; in part it reflected a provincial fear that joining the Market would cost Norway its placid way of life along with some of its political sovereignty. Farmers were upset because membership in the EEC would require the government to abandon the subsidies that keep Norway's agriculture alive, especially in its hostile northern reaches; fishermen feared competition in their inshore waters from strong British and West German fleets; and environmentalists were concerned that EEC development policies would destroy Norway's natural beauty. They were supported by a diffuse...