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Democratic Presidential candidate George S. McGovern called for a bipartisan effort to end hunger in America in a speech before a crowd of about 100 yesterday at the School of Public Health...
Jackson is not the only prominent politician to speak strongly against recent Jewish policies, especially the 1981 invasion of Lebanon and the resulting Shatilla massacre. Candidate George S. McGovern has taken a political line similar to Jackson's, though he has couched his rhetoric in friendly terms. McGovern, before the same Manchester audience that heard Jackson, said he criticized Israel as a "friend," not as an adversary...
...race for the nomination. Ohio Senator John Glenn, of course, believed and said the same thing for almost a year then, in Iowa, where he counted on finishing second, he staggered in fifth with less than 4% of the vote, well behind former Senator George McGovern (10%) and California Senator Alan Cranston (7%). He did little better than former Florida Governor Reubin Askew (2.5%) and the Rev. Jesse Jackson (1.5%). "We took a licking," Glenn conceded, but added, "It's not the end of the world." There was no ignoring the implications of his Iowa debacle. "Glenn is gone...
...elected caucus chairman by 86 of his Democratic neighbors gathered in the auditorium of Waterloo's red brick McKinstry Elementary School. When they arranged themselves into clusters according to candidate preference, 33 were for Mondale, 17 for Hart, eleven (five whites, six blacks) for Jackson, ten for McGovern, the rest scattered among also-rans. votes A at a caucus candidate to must have his receive 15% support of re the corded m the statewide tabulation; backers of candidates who fall below the threshold remain can formally defect to another uncommitted. contender During he arm twisting at McKinstry Elementary...
...caucus in a Des Moines school the chairwoman initially counted "35-ish for Mondale, 30-plus for McGovern" University of Northern Iowa History Professor Charles Quirk, Brian's father, thinks the inexact, homespun democracy is terrific. People criticize the caucuses as a meaningless media show," he says "But it s a civics lesson for us all. Both the politicians and the people are better...