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...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 President, and having turned from hawk to dove. He told a hissing University of Pennsylvania audience last week: "I hope some of you will have the courage to change your mind when you find...
...Convention. But last week McGovern continued to show surprising organizational strength as his enthusiastic, and mainly youthful, supporters dominated enough party caucuses in Idaho to win 45% of the district delegates, who will select the state's delegation to the National convention. Edmund Muskie got only 17.8% and Hubert Humphrey 5%. McGovern did almost as well in similar caucuses in Vermont, neighboring Muskie's Maine. He appeared to have won about 400 district delegates against nearly 250 for Muskie and only eight for Humphrey. The showing was all the more impressive because in both states top party leaders...
Though some political cynics dismiss him as a stalking horse for his friend Hubert Humphrey, who is not entered in the North Carolina primary, Sanford swears that he is serious in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Just as seriously, he says that if he loses to Wallace in North Carolina he will drop out of the race and return to the relative quiet of academe...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY-Edie Adams, Billy Daniels, Jimmy Durante, Percy Faith, Eva Gabor, Robert Goulet, Lome Greene, Trini Lopez, Dick Shawn...
...George S. McGovern, 1822, 74 per cent; Rep, Shirley Chisholm 282, 11 per cent; Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, 141, 6 Per cent; Gov. George C. Wallace, 67, 2 per cent; Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey 51, 2 per cent; Mayor John V. Lindsay, 48, 1 per cent; Eugene J. McCarthy, 36, 1 per cent; Sen. Henry Jackson, 28, 1 per cent...