Word: scheer
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...runs no risk as long as it has his enthusiastic support, plus that of several other radical-leaning San Francisco businessmen and intellectuals. Ramparts pays the going rate for contributions, supports a staff of 26, many of whom are political activists as well as ardent journalists. Managing Editor Robert Scheer ran for Congress in the Democratic primary last year on a New Left platform calling for unilateral withdrawal from Viet Nam. He lost, but he gave Incumbent Jeffery Cohelan a rough fight. Keating himself ran unsuccessfully in a congressional primary in San Mateo County...
...McNamara went to Cambridge to deliver the first lecture at Harvard's new Kennedy Institute of Politics. The 350 members of the Harvard S.D.S. decided that this would be an ideal time for a debate between McNamara and an eloquent spokesman they had brought to the campus, Robert Scheer, an editor of Ramparts magazine and an unsuccessful anti-war congressional candidate. Institute officials quashed the proposal, and McNamara spoke for three hours in Quincy House to 15 students at a lunch and a random selection of 50 at a seminar. He urged students to work for civil rights rather...
...Outside Quincy House in the summer-like afternoon, some 600 students gathered to hear Editor Scheer denounce U.S. policy. Split roughly in half between those for and those against the Government, the crowd carried signs reading STOP THE WAR, NAPALM S.D.S., and BACK MAC. Scheer's oratory raised emotional temperatures even higher. S.D.S. members, awaiting McNamara's departure, watched all Quincy House exits. Officials dispatched several cars as decoys before McNamara slipped into a police wagon. About 25 S.D.S. members spotted . the vehicle, threw themselves under its wheels. Their shouts of "We got him-we got him!" brought...
...What Scheer and other leftists did, of course, was decide to boycott the election. Even CDC members refused to work in the Brown campaign. "Now no Democrat will ever again take us for granted," Scheer contends. "They'll have to make concessions to us. We'll have more of a machine than the pros when Brown loses...
...Scheer and the rest of the California Conference for New Politics -- part of the national movement -- want to test their theory by running a candidate for Thomas Kuchel's Senate seat in 1968. Whether the candidate will be Scheer himself or Simon Casady, the ousted CDC president, has not been determined. Scheer says he might also like another crack at Jeffrey Cohelan's House seat...