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...totally alien to the American tradition," declared President Nixon. "The way to end discrimination against some is not to begin discrimination against others." Contended Vice President Spiro Agnew: "A quota system, regardless of its avowed intent, has no place in a free society." It would, he said, "Push America backward, back into the failures of a bygone era of narrow-minded prejudices and internecine conflicts...
AFTER a month of false starts and wheel spinning, the McGovern campaign bandwagon is definitely on the move-backward. A new TIME poll conducted by Daniel Yankelovich Inc. between Aug. 25 and Sept. 12 shows that McGovern's campaign is having a negative effect: in several states where he has stumped the hardest, he has lost ground; and the issues he has emphasized the most are those that are now hurting him more than ever. The poll finds that Nixon leads McGovern by an astonishing 39 points...
...their health problems. Others became withdrawn and depressed, convinced that neither the operation nor the care they were receiving would help. In some cases, there were lapses in the ability to read or speak. One 50-year-old man found himself unable to understand a simple sentence, or count backward from 100. A 57-year-old patient became violent, shouting unintelligibly and attempting to rise from his bed and pull out his intravenous tubes...
...American history. The Democrats held their convention a month early to give their nominee a chance to make some extra mileage, and ended up losing ground. From the selection of Tom Eagleton to Pierre Salinger's talks with the North Vietnamese in Paris, George McGovern stumbled steadily backward. He could hardly get started attacking Nixon, so busy was he fending off attacks on himself. But the approach of Labor Day jolted his sluggish campaign into action. As his campaign chairman Larry O'Brien ominously put it: "Labor Day is everybody's D-day." Last week, in quick...
That awkward situation provided an opportunity for the Soviet Union to embarrass Peking. Moscow hoped to demonstrate that China, contrary to disclaimers, is a superpower, and that in no sense does she champion the impoverished, backward Third World. In the crucial Security Council vote on admission, eleven of the 15 members of the Security Council, including the U.S., Russia and India, voted to recommend membership, three abstained, and only China voted to oppose the entry of Bangladesh. Now, unless the Pakistanis themselves recognize Bangladesh soon, the Chinese may find themselves further embarrassed by the reintroduction of the issue...