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Natural Ground. In campaign strategy, too, there is a major difference. Nixon obviously hopes for some Southern support. He plucked Spiro Agnew from obscurity at least partly to avoid offending Dixie. Like Nixon, Humphrey enjoyed heavy Southern support for the nomination. But he gave the South little in return. He ignored a Southern list of seven proposed candidates for the vice-presidential nomination and selected the man he considered best qualified of those willing to make the race...
...specifically cite Rumania in an otherwise routine speech before a San Antonio milk producers' convention, he made his meaning clear. "There are rumors," he said, "that this action [against Czechoslovakia] might be repeated elsewhere in the days ahead in Eastern Europe. We cannot and we must not return in the year 1968 to a world of unbridled aggression. Let no one unleash the dogs...
...Soviets had arrested Dubček as a traitor the week before and spirited him away. Then, in what looked like an astounding turnabout, the Soviet leaders had him flown to Moscow, where they confirmed his status as continuing chief of the Czechoslovak party. Czechoslovaks joyously seized on his return to Prague as evidence that they had somehow prevailed in their improbable contest of national determination against Soviet force. That belief was buttressed by the fact that during the hours before Dubček's arrival, Soviet armor withdrew from the central part of Czechoslovak cities...
...represented only a temporary setback. He and the other leaders, he said, had accepted the Soviet dictates, and the attendant crackdowns on personal and political liberty, in hopes of getting the occupation lifted. "We are sure that you will see in all this an essential measure aimed at a return to a normal situation and a renewal of the trends toward social democratization...
Almost instinctively, the four began their work with a pilgrimage to the hippie encampment in Lincoln Park. It was mutual love at first sight. Hippies fondled Ginsberg's black beard and flowing tresses; Genet showered dollar bills on the hippies and received a hippie ring in return. "They are so beautiful; they are such angels," he murmured. The convention that the four were supposed to be covering was less to their taste. "Boring and unoriginal" snapped Genet. So he and his colleagues decided to return to the idyllic delights of Lincoln Park, only to run into a clash with...