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...like anybody else, political reporters cherish their neutrality in news stories as the cornerstone of their credibility. But credibility suffered a serious setback two weeks ago when Newspaper Guild President Charles A. Perlik Jr., 48, mounted a chair at George McGovern's press headquarters in Miami Beach to proclaim: "McGovern sounds the beat we can march to. Let's fall in line behind him." The executive board of the journalists' union had endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time in the Guild's 39-year history. It was an extraordinary move at a time when...
...there. But nowhere are the party's regulars sanguine about the prospects for November if McGovern runs. A prominent Jewish fund-raiser predicts that "most of my friends would vote for Nixon and give their money to Nixon." Although McGovern was at pains in New York to proclaim himself a firm supporter of Israel, some Jews still mistrust him; some also feel that McGovern's political aura is too radical. San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Humphrey supporter, fears that the Italian community, finding McGovern "too permissive," would drift into the Republican column. Says an Illinois...
...Those who proclaim a great victory at An Loc cannot have it both ways," writes TIME'S Saigon Bureau Chief Stanley Cloud. "Either the North Vietnamese were badly beaten in their effort to take the town and therefore do not have a force of any great size still blocking the road, or else Lieut. General Nguyen Van Minh and his troops have been, in the bitter words of one Western military expert in Saigon, 'culpable in their failure to push on in there.' " By keeping the column stationary, Minh and his officers may actually have exposed...
Reconciliation is in the air, like the life-giving rains that signal the start of the wet season. The main street of Juba (pop. 130,000, swelled by refugees), a potholed red-dirt track, has been renamed "Unity Avenue." Overhead, banners in Arabic and English proclaim...
Review. U Thant's lead story reads uncannily like the Cousins editorial: both deal in leaden tones with what they proclaim as the new global brotherhood of man. The former U.N. Secretary-General goes on to note that there is no alternative to-guess what...