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Does the youth movement involve a vast tidal change in Democratic politics, a new direction for the party? Or is the McGovern phenomenon a brief eruption, a peculiar coincidence of a mobilizing issue-the war-and party reforms that the regulars simply did not understand in time? Historian James MacGregor Burns recalls the French youth who rioted in 1968 and then rather quickly fell into a cynical apathy. Says Burns: "You can't expect youth involvement indefinitely unless the system proves workable...
...Mayor Richard Daley, saying he had supported Nixon and past Presidents on the war, and that "I think we should stand by our President," nevertheless said he had changed his mind. "I don't think any President has the right, without approval of Congress, to carry on a war-and we've been in a war for ten years." Nine of Henry Kissinger's former staff members wrote to him declaring their admiration for much of what he has done in the past but deploring the mining and the bombing escalation. For this weekend, the National Peace...
...difficult to shake the fancy that perhaps the President would suddenly declare the war in Viet Nam ended-although "suddenly" is perhaps not a word that can be applied to America's longest war-and bring the U.S. troops home at once...
...their supply bases were 1,000 miles away and most food and ammunition had to be carried 3,000 miles around the coast of India. The troops -mostly tall, fierce Punjabis and Pa-thans-were surrounded in East Pakistan by a hostile population of 78 million Bengalis. The civil war-and it could be called no less-promised to be long and bloody. The Bengalis, armed with a few looted guns, spears and often just bamboo staves, were ill-trained for a guerrilla war. But a resistance movement, once organized, might eventually force the West Pakistanis to depart...
Early in the summer, the Republican national committee refused to name Massachusetts as one of its 16 target districts-perhaps because of Senatorial candidate Spaulding's refusal to too the Nixon line on the war-and consequently no Republican money was sent into Boston for the Spaulding election campaign. Both Nixon and Agnew were asked not to campaign in the state...