Word: mcgovern
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Chinamano questioned the recent proposal by Sen. George M. McGovern (D-S.D.) and Sen. S. I. Hayakawa (R-Calif.) to send a Congressional delegation to monitor the April 20 elections in Zim- babwe. The Patriotic Front has comdemned the upcoming elections...
...socialist St. Louis Teamster leader, who pioneered in providing his members with a food co-op, his retirees with low-cost subsidized housing, St. Louis with mass transit, and who even supported busing to help eliminate segregated schools before the 1954 Supreme Court decision. And Gibbons supported McGovern in 1972 against the Teamster tide for Nixon. But he backed down when it came to challenging Hoffa or Fitzsimmons for union leadership--he was co-opted by the good life, a villa in Palm Springs, the perquisites of a high Teamster salary, a Lincoln Continental...
...most significant stop on McGovern's safari probably was Angola. That troubled, former Portuguese province has until recently strongly opposed U.S. African policy. In turn, Washington has long objected to the large force of Cuban soldiers and civilian workers (about 20,000) in President Agostinho Neto's socialist republic. Neto, reports TIME Correspondent David Wood, who accompanied McGovern to Luanda, hinted to McGovern that the Cubans will leave Angola eventually -but only when South Africa stops raiding the country's bases along the Namibian border...
Nonetheless, Neto says he is anxious to expand diplomatic relations. Angola is looking for Western financial and technological help, both for economic reasons and to offset its dependence on East bloc aid. In his talks with McGovern, Neto stressed his desire to improve relations with Washington. Why, he asked the Senator, does the U.S. continue to maintain diplomatic relations with Ethiopia, which has a large Cuban cadre, while refusing recognition to Angola because of the Cuban force on its territory? McGovern told newsmen, "I didn't have an answer for that...
...McGovern trip was also an opportunity for American newsmen to visit Angola, from which they had been barred since 1976. Correspondent Wood found that the country's teeming capital (pop. 490,000) fully reflected the serious economic problems facing Angola. His report...