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...being a better end than halfback. His counterpart, now that Stargel is out, will probably be Earl Strayhorn, a quick, 6'2",190 lb. junior. Because of a summer knee injury, the plan to move Stargel from halfback to end this season has been shelved. He is trying to strengthen his knee now in the hope that he can get by without an operation, and eventually help out at halfback. Tony Smith, currently out with a bad hamstring pull, John Kiernan, also injured, and Bruce Freeman are sufficiently ensconced in the end picture to have allowed Yovicsin to switch Reed...
...Senators McCarthy and McGovern state that our capacity to protest the events in Czechoslovakia has been weakened because of our involvement in Viet Nam. I suggest that besides withdrawing from Viet Nam, we could further strengthen our capacity to protest by withdrawing all U.S. forces from Europe and Asia. If our protests still prove to be ineffective in preventing more Czechoslovakias we could escalate our protesting capacity by unilateral disarmament...
Some McCarthy supporters sniped that McGovern's entry will split the dissidents and thus aid Humphrey's cause. On the other hand, it may actually strengthen the anti-Administration forces by engaging many presently inactive Kennedy supporters and bringing their added pressure to bear against the Vice President. Almost as soon as Mc Govern announced, old New Frontiersmen Pierre Salinger and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. endorsed him. Salinger and former R.F.K. Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz are expected to join his staff...
...harder to bring off than political ones. For this task, he needs the same outpouring of allegiance from the Czechoslovaks as that which buttressed his stand at Cierna and Bratislava. There was some early evidence that Dubček might get it. In a voluntary effort to strengthen the economy, thousands of Czechoslovaks last week began donating money and jewelry to the government. The one-week total: $3,000,000 in cash and gold...
...further strengthen Biafra's hand in Addis, Ojukwu unilaterally declared a cease-fire while the talks are in progress: the Biafrans would launch no new attacks and only fire when fired upon. With the Nigerians aggressively on the move, that is not likely to reduce the level of violence much. But it will improve Biafra's image with the representatives of the Organization of African Unity, who are sponsoring the peace talks, and perhaps ultimately bring African pressure on Lagos to follow suit...