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...nasty edge. Senate Minority Leader Hugh Scott was moved to call McGovern the "triple-A candidate-acid, amnesty and abortion." While Nixon would campaign as a working President, he would have scores of "surrogate candidates" ready to go forth with grittier political messages. One of them might be Spiro Agnew or, if Agnew is dropped from the Republican ticket, former Treasury Secretary John Connally. Last week, perhaps in preparation for a vice-presidential role, Connally was dispatched by the President on a 17-nation world tour in Nixon's behalf...
Just when anticipation is keenest (Has the President fallen gravely ill? Has Brezhnev delivered a nuclear ultimatum? Has Agnew staged a coup d'etat?), Nixon emerges with a fistful of notes and a gleam in his eye. To an astonished public, he announces a bold, new, precedent-shattering program that will give the nation the "lift of a driving dream" he has talked about, even though much of it amounts to an ideological reversal of his past positions. Drawing on the best advice of a wide range of Americans-including, for openers, Jesse Jackson and Ralph Nader, Cesar Chavez...
...Yiannis Horn, editor-publisher-owner of the English-language Athens News (circ. 6,000). He not only prints statements by opposition politicians but also punctuates stories with blunt editor's notes ("We demand an explanation from the regime on this"). Last October Horn headlined a story on Spiro Agnew's visit: BOMBS, RECRUITED SCHOOLCHILDREN...
...GREET AGNEW. Unfortunately for Horn, News makeup men inadvertently left out the paragraph reporting the protest bombings and the enforced turnout of pupils. Because the article as printed did not back up the headline, the government convicted Horn of practicing "negligent" journalism. Last week Horn, 60, who is in poor health, began serving a 28-week sentence. But authorities released him after two days pending an appeal...
Once it seemed that Spiro Agnew had the assignment more or less to himself-defending his President, and the republic for that matter, from the "nattering nabobs of negativism" in the press. Now the Vice President is only one member of a Republican chorus...