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...radical for Humphrey, they will say . .. And leave the sentence dangling. If Humphrey himself should get the nomination, the Republicans are confident that they could take him nearly as easily. The White House regards Humphrey as a used-up politician who would repel the young, probably trigger a splinter party of the left and be vulnerable because of his old associations with the Johnson Administration, which the Republicans would probably refer to as "the Humphrey-Johnson Administration...
...would symbolize Korea's cultural heritage. The bank recently released pictures of its choice: an engraving of a sitting Buddha on one side and a famous Buddhist temple on the other. "Discrimination," howled South Korea's 2.5 million Christians, 2 million Confucianists and 1.5 million members of splinter sects. The Christians charged that the design violated the spirit of a law prohibiting a state religion. Most offended of all, however, were the nation's 4 million Buddhists, who consider it an insult to link the Buddha to something as crass as cash. Last week President Chung...
Boer War barnstorming seemed to be paying off for the Nationalist leaders. At last week's special election in Oudtshoorn, an Afrikaner stronghold 278 miles east of Cape Town, the National Party candidate defeated both his United Party opponent and a right-wing Afrikaner splinter candidate by an unusually wide margin. "An inspiring test of strength," beamed Prime Minister Vorster. Opposition leaders, though, insisted that Oudtshoorn-which is best known in South Africa for the ostriches it raises-was hardly an index of the national mood. "The Afrikaners here will get a shock," said one United Party politician, "when...
...past two years, I find it impossible to sit around passively while Nixon throttles this war up to a bloody new pitch. The memory of those dreary marches in the past that tottered between the inanity of Pepsi Generation DJ's and the chaotic in-fighting of splinter group radicals has inhibited many of us from political activity for two year. While we might have been fools then in an embarrassment of youth, we would be infinitely worse now if we let Nixon get away with massacring a people to save his proud and political neck...
Nguyen Ty Hin, the sister of Mai, Dr. Tuong told me, was running for shelter when she was hit with shrapnel which severely wounded her hip. A large wound was opened up by a splinter from an anti-personnel bomb...