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...class action, suit lists eight Spectator editors as complainants. The phone tapping allegedly occurred last Wednesday when, Spectator editors say, conversations about antiwar student strikes were repeatedly...
Thinner Reed. Even on Nixon's third front, at home, the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong failed to ignite antiwar passions to the degree it would have in the past. To be sure, critics noted that bombing North Viet Nam has never persuaded Hanoi to bargain before. Quite the contrary, Lyndon Johnson got the North Vietnamese to Paris in 1968 only by stopping the bombing north of the 20th parallel?and he got them to start talking only by stopping the bombing sorties entirely. Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rogers and Laird insisted that the Commander in Chief...
Politically, the man who stands to gain the most if there is a reaction to Nixon's belligerence is Senator George McGovern of South Dakota (see story on page 19). His identification with the antiwar cause will doubtless help him in this week's primaries in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine pledged to stop the bombing of the North and withdraw all troops from Indochina, in return for the release of U.S. P.O.W.s, "within 60 days of my inauguration." Hubert Humphrey, his chief centrist rival, knows that he is tarred with having been Lyndon Johnson's Vice...
...astonishment. If the Communists should wind up taking over in Saigon, "it will be tough," Wallace added. "But I want us out." On Capitol Hill, Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma, abandoning his usual caution, voted with the House Democrats who endorsed, 144 to 58, by far the most stringent antiwar resolution ever to get anywhere on that side of the Capitol. (The House has always been more hawkish than the Senate.) Even Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, long a tacit Administration backer on Viet Nam, proclaimed: "It's high time we got out of there...
Vietnam veteran John Kerry urged antiwar protesters Saturday to forego further demonstrations and concentrate instead on defeating President Nixon at the polls...