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Though born a Jew in Vienna 62 years ago, throughout most of his life urbane Bruno Kreisky has sought to sunder all links to Judaism. At an early age he declared himself an agnostic. His wife is a Protestant, and he had his two children baptized as Protestants. He bristles when he is referred to as a Jew, preferring to be called "of Jewish origin...
...delegates under 30 (v. only 2.6% in 1968), and McGovern estimates that nearly 500 of his are in that category. Elstein is thus a symbol of an astonishing new force in the Democratic Party: the young politicians come of age. It is a force that may save-or sunder-the Democrats. It may galvanize the election-or the defeat-of George McGovern. It contains the potential for a struggle that may make the issue at Miami Beach even larger than the selection of a candidate. What is at stake is the Democratic Party's future and its political soul...
...specter of Quebec separatism has long haunted English-speaking Canadians. The secession of the large French-speaking province would sunder the country geographically, making it difficult, if not impossible, for Canada's remaining nine provinces to hold together. But in last week's elections for a new provincial assembly, Quebec voters said no to separatism...
...months, dissidents of the pro-Wal-lace right and antiwar left threatened to fragment the nation's two-party alignment. The Alabamian, it was feared, would sunder the New Deal coalition of labor, Negroes and ethnic minorities by luring away hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers; disaffected Dem-ocrats-and most Negroes-would sit out the election in disgust or apathy. Richard Nixon predicted confidently that a "silent center" would rise up with an overwhelming mandate for the Republican Party...
...Sundering the Bloc. Práce was most likely correct. Any Soviet attack on Czechoslovakia à la Hungary 1956 would have horrendous repercussions for the Kremlin's foreign policy. It would shatter the carefully cultivated détente Russia has been building with Western Europe. It would sunder the Communist bloc, nearly all of whose members have embraced "polycentrism" as the correct philosophy for relations between Communist countries and Russia. It would make impossible the conference of Communist parties that Russia hopes to convene this year. Nor would it be a military Cakewalk. Since Russian troops left...