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...George McGovern came to Harvard yesterday, but even he could do little for the Amherst squash team. The Lord Jeffs, with McGovern playing in the ninth position, fell to the highly-touted Crimson racquetmen...
...time that the party has agreed on how it should be run since 1968, when liberals and minority groups charged that they had been underrepresented at the bitter convention that nominated Senator Hubert Humphrey. In the aftermath, the Democratic National Committee created a commission, initially headed by Senator George McGovern, to rewrite the guidelines for choosing delegates for the 1972 convention. The commission's sweeping reforms are now generally accepted by the party and appear in the proposed charter. In some states, party officials used to select convention delegates; now all party members can take part in the process...
...political leader Alexander Barkan has led the fight to amend language in the charter to ban "implied" as well as "mandatory" quotas. His chief opposition has come from party caucuses of women and blacks and the Democratic Planning Group that comprises the McGovern-McCarthy-Kennedy wing of the party. Barkan's opponents see a wholesale ban on quotas as a threat to greater minority group participation...
Other potential conflicts, over various rules that may increase the authority of the national party over the state parties, could surface this weekend and would pit state chairmen and most governors, particularly George Wallace, against party reformers and liberals of the McGovern camp...
...writer is the "McGovern Republican " who upset Democratic Incumbent Frank E. Denholm...