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Even America's staunchest allies, while not unsympathetic, used to be dismayed by Washington's obsession with Viet Nam. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger have begun to rebuild American prestige and influence by the daring, skillful summit diplomacy that led to the agreement with Hanoi. To achieve their grandly labeled "generation of peace," Nixon and Kissinger are seeking to limit the American role in the world, concentrating on great power relationships and on learning to live with all kinds of Communist regimes...
...Alliance, is supporting Nixon. So is Sam Nakis, past supreme president of the Greek-American organization AHEPA. Among Jewish defectors are Rabbi Herschel Schacter, former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations; and David Luchins, who headed the 1972 Jewish Youth for Humphrey. Blacks have been the staunchest holdouts against Republican blandishments, but Nixon has been able to pick up the backing of Athlete-Actor Jim Brown, Singer James Brown, Floyd McKissick and Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford, who admits that he is supporting the President because he has been promised up to $4,000,000 in federal funds...
Arthur Schlesinger Jr., one of McGovern's staunchest defenders, has questioned the ability of what he calls "conventional-minded political reporters" to understand the McGovern campaign. Indeed, the press seems to have gone through three separate phases with McGovern's candidacy. Until Edmund Muskie faltered in the primaries, reporters generally consigned McGovern to also-ran status and paid little attention to his ideas. Then coverage focused on the organizational wonders of his nomination drive. During that period, observed the Christian Science Monitor's Godfrey Sperling, McGovern was getting a "free ride" from a largely uncritical press. Finally...
...most lordly male chauvinist and all but the staunchest advocate of Women's Liberation agree that woman's place is different from man's. But for the increasingly uncomfortable American woman, it is easier to say what that place is not than what...
Twice chairman of the Boston school committee, Mrs. Hicks retains her reputation as the staunchest opponent of busing to end de facto segregation, a position that accounted for much of her support in 1967. Now the feeling is that her day-and the era of her particular appeal-may have passed. For the first time in her political career, Mrs. Hicks did not finish first in a Boston primary, and she has lately reversed many of her earlier positions. She supports the antiwar Mansfield amendment, while earlier she had been a raging hawk...