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...reason for the sudden decline in popularity is McGovern's chairmanship of a special commission investigating-and finding-abuses in the selection of convention delegates. Born of the Chicago convention's tumult and disillusionment, the commission was set up by the party leadership as a sop to the liberals. McGovern was named chairman as a compromise between extreme dissidents and regulars. But his way of running the commission has turned out to be almost as divisive as the convention itself and the Viet Nam issue...
When Bhutto condemned the Soviet-sponsored Tashkent Agreement, which restored the old Indo-Pakistan borders, Ayub fired his Foreign Minister-although offering him an ambassadorship as a sop. Bhutto elected to stay at home and became increasingly critical of the President, a stand that gained him wide support among students and intellectuals. Last November, Ayub finally jailed him on charges of inciting to riot and endangering the national security-clearly an attempt to head the former Foreign Minister away from a presidential challenge later this year. By that time the opposition had hardened about demands for abandoning the "basic democrat...
...encouraging to see how far the committee went in its proposals. The plan Rosovsky offers is no mere sop designed to co-opt student protest. Instead of merely suggesting minimal expansion in course offerings, the committee proposes a farreaching program aimed at remedying Harvard's academic deficits and at repairing some of the grotesque problems of black student life here. The plan will not solve all the problems, but it will make a start. The Faculty should approve it next week...
...diplomacy with allies and enemies alike. Anyway, a statement merely setting a vague priority is meaningless. If, instated McCarthy is thinking of reappraising the value of our alliances or military aid programs, that is something else--a genuine occasion for a full-blown national debate. But a brief rhetorical sop to alienated liberals and blacks is a guide to nothing...
...Histoire, as in The Wind, The Grass and other books, he turns fragments of the imagination into poetry rather than into the monotone prose that is the mark of most New Novels. Histoire should be read as poetry, which means it should be read aloud. Speed readers, trained to sop up information and the dull acknowledgments of psychological and sociological fiction, will have to shift into low. Histoire has the dream's unquestioned authority to exist without having to justify itself in time, space or in man's rickety categories of experience...