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...first group to visit the island under the new travel rules was a team of basketball players from South Dakota, accompanied by the state's Democratic Senators, George McGovern and James Abourezk. The South Dakotans were blasted off the court by the Olympic-class Cuban roundballers, but McGovern came home full of zeal for ending the 16-year-old trade embargo. Last week another U.S. group with a keen interest in that project went to Havana: 50 business leaders from Minnesota...
Thompson detailed his disillusionment with political life, saying he got no "feeling of electricity" from contemporary politics. When asked who really sabotaged the 1972 McGovern campaign, Thompson said "George," but then added that "if Nixon and McGovern were to run again this fall Nixon would probably win again...
...same time, over in Gund Hall's Piper Auditorium, boyish Sen. Gary Hart (D.-Colo.) will provide some much needed feedback on President Carter's energy program when he lectures on "Energy and Congress." Hart engineered George McGovern's startling success in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries and triumph at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. After the unsuccessful fall campaign, Hart got going on his own Senate race. He triumphed in 1974 on an environmentalist platform...
...hypocrisy of a battle over busing in the birthplace of Abolitionism, and a center for modern freedom riders and civil rights advocates. Some newspapers noted wryly that forced desegregation had occured with less friction in areas of the Deep South than in the only state that went for McGovern in 1972. Bostonians, it seemed, were hypocrites at heart...
...Best Foreign Film, over the gross and grossly overrated but commercially successful Seven Beauties. The harshly critical Harlan County, U.S.A. won as Best Documentary. Things were getting so radical that even a dyed-in-the-wool, if not so endowed in the head, liberal like Warren Beatty (McGovern benefits in '72, and all that) sauntered on and suggested that to add some political balance he should put in a good word "for Goldwater and Reagan...