Word: mcgovern
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...says he avoids most organizations, preferring to act individually, but he is deeply involved with the American Friends Service Committee and Amnesty International in defending Soviet dissidents and opposing totalitarian regimes in South Korea and Chile. Wald also backed the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 and George McGovern...
...Evans came to Shadwell's campaign after a year and a half at the University of Virginia Law School and about a year spent working on George McGovern's campaign. Tom Jeff is portrayed as a politician who is honest to a fault, and as sincere and concerned about the plight of "his people" as Jesus himself. Epps describes the campaign stop that Shadwell makes at a small-town general store...
Covering Senator George McGovern's visit to Havana two years ago. Reporter Barbara Walters extracted a promise from Fidel Castro: the Cuban leader would give her his first major interview for American television. Thus Castro personally chauffeured Walters around the island over a four-day period last month, and ABC will present the choicest hour of their conversation this Thursday (10 p.m. E.D.T.). But somebody got to Fidel first...
...hard for someone like George [McGovern, who recently attacked the President's economic policies] to get credit for fights. Many of President Carter's proposals are liberal in concept. Look at the record: a $4 billion tax cut for lowest-income people, repairing the Social Security system, $10 billion in public works and public jobs, grants to help the most troubled center cities, upping the money for education...
Sullivan, the only Harvard student running for local office, is a member of the state Democratic committee and was Massachusetts student coordinator for Sen. George S. McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign...