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...McGovern, he said, had told him that he "had been under pressure" about Eagleton's candidacy. Yet, Eagleton insisted, three times in the course of the conversation he had wrung from McGovern the phrase "that he's 1,000% for me." Defiantly, the vice-presidential candidate told newsmen: "I'm going to stay on the ticket. That's my firm, irrevocable intent." Even if McGovern decides to keep Eagleton after all, the net effect has been to make McGovern look either devious or weak or both, or at the most charitable, indecisive...
...shock treatments, his law office issued a statement that he was at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for gastric tests. Eagleton admitted last week that the story was "a ploy, because when you need rest you need rest from the press." Eagleton's brother Mark, a physician, told newsmen after the rumors about Tom had started that Tom had really never left St. Louis. Last week Mark finally confessed: "The truth is important, but for us now the most important thing is what is going to hurt or help my brother...
...since 1949, when the Red Chinese ordered all American organizations to "discontinue news activity," has there been a permanent U.S. press presence in mainland China. But recent Ping Pong diplomacy and presidential summitry have brought American newsmen back for brief visits. Last week A.P. President Wes Gallagher and Board Chairman Paul Miller arrived in Peking to negotiate an exchange agreement with the Chinese news agency Hsinhua that would re-establish a regular news and photo channel between the two countries. They hope the exchange will be the first step toward opening an A.P. bureau in Peking...
Most U.D.A. leaders insist on anonymity and refuse to let their pictures be taken by newsmen. An exception is Dave Fogel, 27, a tough, salty Londoner and ex-soldier in the British army who commands the Woodvale Defense Association. "My business now?" asks Fogel bitterly. "I'm the one in eight unemployed in Northern Ireland." Fogel is contemptuous of the middle-class politicians who dominate the Unionist Party. His view of a local Unionist M.P., who was seeking his vote: "He was wearing a mohair suit. There are no mohair suits around here. His face was brown...
...complained Columnist Robert Novak, "and I don't know a soul here." But Novak and others had only to look away from the sea of fresh faces on the floor to find old hands like Frank Mankiewicz, Pierre Salinger and Richard Dougherty at McGovern headquarters, eager to brief newsmen on plans and tactics. "This convention's easier to cover," maintained Thomas Ross of the Chicago Sun-Times, "because there aren't as many double-dealers among the delegates. At other conventions, you'd think you had it cold and then three guys would go into...