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...nothing else, a more enlightened American public realizes that it must do something about political campaigns and their expenditures. And perhaps just as important, that a candidate should be able to prove his right to an office on his own merits, rather than on the amount of dirt and slander he can hurl at his opponent...
...George McGovern at a urinal, throwing objectivity out the window, junking any semblance of "off-the-record," refusing to repress an obvious bias (pro-McGovern), and drawing no line at the point where the facts ended and his imaginative insanity began. For example, he gets into some very heavy slander: NBC's John Chancellor (who he seems to like) is a "dope-addled fascist bastard," Muskie is "a bonehead who steals his best lines from old Nixon speeches," and Hubert Humphrey is a "treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with...
...other people to God." He added: "I am an atheist but I do not believe God would be so partial." Rapping the table with his pipe, the Israeli Ambassador, Yosef Tekoah, shouted: "I do not believe that the Security Council should be a forum for the kind of slander and abuses of any people's faith we heard just now from Ambassador Malik!" Tekoah then proceeded to bring up the Soviet Union's prewar pact with Nazi Germany, which drew a sharp protest from Malik...
...Last week it was learned that Sinatra had received an invitation to a White House party in his honor planned for sometime this spring. The invitation was issued before the row with Mrs. Cheshire, who is suing Sinatra for slander, but according to White House spokesmen, the party is still...
Seldom since the blusterous days of Nikita Khrushchev had there been such an epithetic attack on China by a Soviet leader. Launching the Soviet Union's 50th anniversary celebrations in Moscow last week, normally restrained Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev lashed out at Peking for "malicious slander of the Soviet political system and foreign policy," for "absurd claims to Soviet territory," for "sabotage of efforts for disarmament," for "continuous attempts to split the socialist camp," for trying to "foment discord" among "national liberation" movements, and for attempts "to range the developing countries against the Soviet Union...