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...traditionally Democratic South, McGovern is taking a particularly bad beating. Even the Abilene (Texas) Reporter News has endorsed Nixon, the first time it has gone for a Republican in 91 years. The only Southern papers of any size to opt for McGovern so far are Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette and Louisville's Courier-Journal. Elsewhere, Nixon enjoys a solid majority of editorial votes in the Midwest and a virtual stranglehold on the West Coast. In New England, the sole prominent daily to declare for McGovern to date is the Pittsfield (Mass.) Berkshire Eagle (circ...
...alternative political and social institutions. These alternatives will require government reform in order to succeed, at least in their early stages. However, as the women's committee points out so well, the reforms they need are "non-reformist reforms," which open the path to further change, rather than co-opt and diffuse the strength of the movement...
...unprofitable -programming. This season will include specials like ABC'S series about Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt and David Rabe's Sticks and Bones, one of several dramas CBS and Joseph Papp are planning. If the networks were forced into a rigid formula limiting reruns, they would undoubtedly opt for the cheapest solution, dropping the specials and extending the standard run of series from the present 22-to-24 weeks to the 39 weeks of a decade...
Criminals are dealt with so lightly here that one New York accountant was moved to remark, "You get one hanging judge down here and that will clear up the problem." Hardly, but then a good police force might. Since most native islanders opt for bureaucratic jobs rather than manual labor (that is done largely by "bonded" blacks from other islands), virtually every criminal seems to have a relative in a government job who will work to prevent him from being found out, arrested or held for any length of time...
JAPAN'S INFLUENCE: Japan is now the world's third biggest economic power, but its "self-defense forces" are modest (259,000 men). Will Japan opt to increase them? "As far as Japan is concerned, militarily it has only enough forces to defend itself." On the other hand, "Japan is ready to cooperate in sharing the burden the U.S. has been carrying in the economic area. That is why we were able to reach agreement on a monetary settlement in Washington at the end of last year. We committed ourselves to raise government development aid [to underdeveloped countries...