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...handicaps than he did in his astonishing march to the nomination. Although his party suffered no humiliation similar to the one caused by the street violence and turbulence of the 1968 Chicago convention, it emerged from Miami Beach badly split over McGovern's brand of populism and the reformist zeal of his insurgents in taking party control away from its veteran power brokers. At the same time, national approval of Richard Nixon's conduct as President is running at 56%, and a preconvention Gallup poll puts him 16% ahead of McGovern in a two-way race. His sensational...
...McGovern as a mainstream candidate (see story, page 16). As the convention approached, some radicals were sneering at the idea of McGovern as a radical. Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman, for example, examined McGovern's ideas and found him "a wild-eyed moderate" whose proposals were only mildly reformist and, in the case of welfare, not very different from Richard Nixon's. Yet the question remained as to how many voters, including more conservative Democrats, would in due course perceive McGovern as a dangerous candidate and, in apprehension, pull their levers for Nixon...
...Iakovos of Houston-evangelical, reformist, emphasizing his points with exhortations from the Apostle Paul -seemed something of a departure from the ambitious hierarch who has made himself so visible on the ecumenical circuit in his 13 years as Primate of the Americas. "I have not always talked this way," he conceded in an interview with TIME'S Mayo Mohs. For years his passion was ecumenism, his hope to lead a union of the Orthodox churches in the U.S. But now, says Iakovos, "the trend is not to fight for power and supremacy: it is to fight the inequities...
...them liberals. Franco, yielding to his progressive man in the Vatican (and some sympathizers in his ministries), accepted the choices. The appointees include nearly all of Spain's leading episcopal reformers today, among them Cardinal Tarancon. In all, two-thirds of Spanish churchmen may now be considered reformist...
...proposed the principle of a guaranteed annual income. However hedged these moves may be, they are hardly in the tradition of Barry Goldwater--despite the Arizona Senator's support of Nixon against the Ashbrook challenge. Gary Wills wrote in Nixon Agonistes that the President has become more of a reformist than a rightist ideologue. His administration is proving Wills right...