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Ahead lay Chicago, where the divided party faces explosive demonstrations outside the convention hall and bitter factional warfare within. From be hind came the clamorous forces of Eugene McCarthy, flanked by a much smaller band of partisans for South Dakota's Senator George McGovern...
...Vice President could ill afford the eupepsia. The Democratic Party is as badly split as ever over the war. In fact, South Dakota Senator George McGovern's belated entry into the race can only increase intraparty factionalism (see following story). Moreover, the G.O.P.'s nomination of Spiro Agnew will tend to reduce the pressures for Democratic unity that might have resulted if a liberal Republican such as John Lindsay had been named to run with Nixon...
Robert Kennedy was once asked to name the most decent man in the Senate. "George McGovern," he replied. "He's the only decent man in the Senate." South Dakota's junior Senator felt much the same way about Kennedy. The two were close friends for years, from the time that McGovern took over John F. Kennedy's Food for Peace program...
Besides the 26 South Dakota delegate votes, McGovern will doubtless inherit a number of the more than 300 primary delegate votes that Kennedy had amassed before his death...
...Travel Director Simon Thuo Kairo, 37, also a Kikuyu, is determined to disabuse tourists "of the myths of Hemingway and Robert Ruark-of the faithful, ignorant, black gun bearer and other noble savages of yesteryear." A graduate of a South Dakota Presbyterian college, Kairo put in two years as President Kenyatta's private secretary before staking $17,000 in receipts from his 300-acre cattle, maize and sheep farm to start Kenya's first African-owned safari operation. Kairo's safaris, however, are not designed for big-game hunting. Equipped with five Volkswagen minibuses, he takes...