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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...became apparent that the Vice President had scored enough of a comeback to make the election as breathtakingly close as the 1960 cliffhanger. With more than 92% of the total popular vote counted, in fact, Nixon's plurality was fewer than 250,000 votes out of 68 million (v. Kennedy's 119,000 out of 69 million...
...some of the best-known Democratic doves from doing exceptionally well against strongly conservative opponents in hawkish states that went for Nixon or Wallace. Arkansas voters approved of J. William Fulbright for his national stature, congressional seniority and defiance of Lyndon Johnson. Frank Church easily surmounted Republican Congressman George V. Hansen, became the first Idaho Democrat ever returned for a third term. Among his constituents, Church's Viet Nam stand burnished his claim of independence from Johnson. South Dakota voters re-elected George McGovern because he displayed obviously deeper knowledge of national and world affairs than the G.O.P...
Missouri. Lieutenant Governor Thomas F. Eagleton, 39, was elected to his current office in 1964 with 65% of the vote. Last summer he toppled Democratic Incumbent Edward V. Long in the primary. Now he has defeated an 18-year veteran of the House, scholarly, industrious Republican Thomas B. Curtis. The Kennedyesque liberal (Teddy made a campaign film with him) promises to be tall on domestic spending but short on military appropriations...
...Philippines v. Malaysia: At the heart of what so far remains this war of words is, quite fittingly, one particular word. That is padjak, which today in Malay means "mortgage" or "pawn" but a century ago meant "to lease" or "to cede." The issue is whether the Sultan of Sulu in 1878 ceded his rights to Sabah, as the Malaysians claim, or simply leased those rights, as is maintained in Manila. There is nothing much new about the Philippine claim-former President Diosdado Macapagal raised it during his election campaign in 1961. It remained a relatively minor issue until this...
...condemned it as a "composite of fantasy, fallacy and fiction." Now, diplomatic contacts are minimal. Largely overlooked in the imbroglio are the 600,000 Sabahans themselves, who, including the Moslem minority which has considerable cultural and economic influence in Sabah, would clearly prefer to stay in Malaysia. >Singapore v. Indonesia: In March 1965, a band of Indonesian marines infiltrated Singapore, then still a part of the newborn nation of Malaysia, on a sabotage mission. They planted a 25-lb. explosive charge in an office building, and the blast left three dead and 30 injured. Two of the marines were captured...