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...confounded everybody by scoring heavily in the New Hampshire voting and demonstrating that the divisions within the Democratic Party were indeed deep.> ROBERT F. KENNEDY, Senator from New York, all along the likeliest man to challenge the President, but inhibited by fear that to join the fray would sunder the party, expose him to charges of opportunism, and wreck his hopes of assuming the office that his brother held so briefly...
...Nixon has been arguing all along that his own itinerary to the nomination-via the primaries-must be followed by all the other hopefuls. Last week he challenged Rockefeller's argument that full-scale primary battles would sunder the party. For one thing, he said, a high-minded campaign such as his own would not injure the Republicans but merely add a second barrel to the anti-Democratic gun. Then he invoked a decidedly Democratic name: "As John F. Kennedy said in February of 1960- in Albany, N.Y., incidentally-the time is past when presidential nominees, untested...
DEMOCRATS Schism on the Left Eugene McCarthy's presidential challenge may not sunder the Democratic Party, but it has caused some damaging cracks in the liberal coalition of intellectuals and labor and civil rights leaders who make up the Americans for Democratic Action. Last week, after the A.D.A.'s board voted, 65 to 47, to endorse the Minnesota Democrat's campaign against the President, seven of its prominent members angrily resigned...
...credibility that he is not interested in being President. More important, Nixon has gained widespread acquiescence to the idea of his candidacy. Party leaders, many of them indebted to Nixon for his herculean campaign labors, have come to view him as an acceptable candidate who at least would not sunder the party as Barry Goldwater did three years ago-even though some doubt that he could...
...shocked eastern Turkey last week, killing more than 100 people and injuring about 200. The quake centered in sparsely settled Tunceli and Erzincan provinces, 80 miles west of the Varto area, scene of a violent quake that killed 2,477 people last August. It was the second earthquake to sunder Turkey within five days; on July 22 about 100 people were killed and 300 injured in a series of shocks that struck 50 towns near Adapazari. Like previous Turkish quakes (see map), the latest disasters were located along the Anatolian Fault, a particularly lethal segment of the earthquake belts that...