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...love and compassion and the unrelenting pursuit of justice. It is almost as if the hate calls forth the love and terror the resistance, as if oppression awakens in people their obligations to each other. The Chilean revolution, the Vietnamese resistance and the American presidential campaign of George McGovern are all different sides of a common thirst for justice...
...EVEN in the United States, the source for much of the world's oppression, the desire for justice is not extinct. George McGovern went through a cycle in the 1972 presidential campaign; first ridiculed, then respected, the admiration turned to contempt again after he was written off as a hopeless loser. But for me, McGovern's finest moments came in those last few weeks of the campaign. He tried to talk about Watergate but I sensed that his heart was not really in it. As he frantically flew around the country in those last days he talked about Vietnam...
...explain his dealings with clothing manufacturers accused of Government kickbacks. He reappeared on the White House staff in 1970 as a special counsel, and recently admitted having hired two journalists at $1,000 a week to supply the 1972 Nixon campaign for re-election with special information on George McGovern...
...Republican side in the same year, front-runner George Romney's inability to generate a campaign forced his withdrawal from the race, and put Richard Nixon too far out in front to be caught. More recently, Edmund Muskie's failure to achieve a decisive victory over George McGovern in March of 1972 proved a virtual death-blow to Muskie's chances, and propelled McGovern into position as a serious candidate...
Advocates of an excess-profits tax on oil now make exactly that pitch. Senator George McGovern, introducing a bill to tax "excess" oil earnings, declared: "Simple justice demands that no company or individual profits unconscionably from a national crisis." A more economic argument is that the artificial shortages created by war or an Arab oil embargo give companies a chance to post higher prices than normal markets would justify. In such cases those prices may have to be tolerated to encourage needed production. But, the argument goes, Government should make sure that at least some of the "abnormal" profits generated...