Word: antiwar
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...muscular arm around my shoulder. Already Eugene McCarthy, with much less to risk, had had the courage to risk it. He had exposed Johnson's soft underbelly, and now Kennedy was motioning to him to stand aside. Kennedy, who had refused to fracture the party, had split the antiwar movement. There was grumbling across the land and throughout the hastily chartered campaign plane...
Despite the threat of more fighting, Gorbachev had good reason to be satisfied. Bringing the troops home will mean an end to Soviet casualties -- an estimated 30,000 men killed in action over the past eight years -- and to growing antiwar sentiment in the Soviet Union. More important, Gorbachev hopes the move will help burnish Moscow's international image, which was tarred by Leonid Brezhnev's decision in 1979 to invade Afghanistan in the first place. Thus it was perhaps no coincidence that Gorbachev wanted to see the withdrawal begin before President Reagan arrives in Moscow for a summit meeting...
...antiwar movement in this country during the Vietnam era was a party compared to what will happen if the Reagan administration holds out any longer," said Steve Norris, a member of Vecino, an organization that sends medical aid to Nicaragua...
...state party officials were able to seize the initiative. Iowa Democrats moved fastest, pushing their 1972 caucuses ahead of the New Hampshire primary. George McGovern, chairman of the first reform commission, understood the new dynamics well. The obscure Senator from neighboring South Dakota had both cultural affinity and the antiwar movement going for him in Iowa...
...antiwar Democrats' distaste for Hubert Humphrey seemed somehow more virulent than their feelings about Richard Nixon, possibly because Humphrey for so long had served the hated warmaker Lyndon Johnson. Nixon, who had been nominated in Miami three weeks before Chicago, somehow did not figure in the demonology just then. He was off the radar. Miami was sedate compared with Chicago, but almost anything this side of a combat zone would have been. Nixon surprised the convention by choosing a vice-presidential running mate named Spiro Agnew, the Governor of Maryland who had drawn some attention in the spring...