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...vote was actually a revision of Senator Howard W. Cannon's (D-Nev.) amendment to Mansfield's proposal Cannon proposed an amendment to withdraw troops from South Vietnam 90 days after passage of the legislation provided Hanoi agreed to the release of American POW's and an accounting of those missing in action...
...battle lines are clearly drawn. The McGovern young can argue with considerable justice that America's alienated youth were invited to work within the system, and (BAM! POW! SPLAT!) they did. Armed with the reform rules that McGovern helped to formulate, the young legions this year shattered political assumptions and shut down party machines that had been grinding on for decades. Through New Hampshire's bitter months, through the endlessly tedious precinct caucuses and state conventions, they mimeographed and telephoned and pounded door to door, living on peanut butter and jelly and spending their nights in sleeping bags...
...fast-takeoff personality and his habit of shooting from the hip. Trained to shun publicity, they are scandalized by the fact that Knowles "talks in headlines" and gets a consistently good press. Last week the naturalized Brahmin moved to New York City to take over a new and more pow erful podium as president of the Rockefeller Foundation...
...historical importance which he lived through, the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1944 by Allied troops. Because the acrid smell of flesh burning in the biggest civilian massacre of World War II has not left his nostrils. Vonnegut, who was transferred to the non-industrial cultural center as a POW, admits in his introduction that he's compelled for once to do more than spin out fantasy, to fantasize in order to justify a good- natured G.I.'s presence at the slaughter in the eyes of the world...
Other groups are doing their thing in town. Alternate City and Pow Wow, two radical Swedish organizations, are conducting tours through the run-down parts of Stockholm. The tour vehicle: an old bus that runs on a form of "recycled" energy, methane gas emanating from horse manure. There are endless parades, one of which featured a large plastic whale to represent that overhunted species. Traffic barely creeps around the main conference halls in the old and the new Parliament buildings. Specially painted bicycles offer a quicker and more environmentally respectable way of getting about, and even Maurice Strong, the conference...