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...kind of political death threat. New Hampshire's Republicans gave only 53% of their vote to the incumbent President -- a stroke of lese majeste that distantly recalled the 50% that New Hampshire Democrats gave Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when Eugene McCarthy took 42% and helped force L.B.J. to withdraw...
...opposition. In the mid-'80s, when the young fighter got into trouble, his people would speak to the local police commissioner, give him a few ringside seats for the next bout . . . no more trouble. The Tyson camp may have tried that tactic again, offering Washington $750,000 to withdraw her complaint. That wouldn't happen here -- not in Indianapolis, not with this accuser and not with Gregory Garrison, a smart barrister with a homespun air, whom the local D.A. had hired as special prosecutor...
...King Jr.'s widow Coretta King, and Arlo Guthrie and Leonard Bernstein and Peter, Paul and Mary, and Democratic Senator George McGovern, who would run against Nixon in 1972, and Eugene McCarthy, who got into the New Hampshire primary in 1968 against Lyndon Johnson and helped force him to withdraw from the presidential race. McCarthy, now 75, has entered the race this year as well: he has come back like another echo...
...Politics refuses to show sensitivity to the concerns of minority groups on campus, perhaps the Black Students Association will. If nothing else, enlightened self-interest should lead Hall and thoughtful members of the BSA to condemn all forms of prejudice of the race and ancestry of the speaker, and withdraw their offer to Leonard Jeffries. Jessica Yellin...
Even before the Baker-Shoval meeting last week, the Palestinians had threatened to withdraw from the talks. But Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, spokeswoman for the Palestinian peace negotiators, made it clear that if the guarantees were conditioned to "eliminate entirely any possibility of these funds being subsidies to occupation and settlements," the Palestinians would continue to negotiate. They are unlikely to be satisfied by the proposal that Baker reportedly made. "It is permission to put 10,000 obstacles on the road to peace," says Saeb Erakat, a member of the Palestinian negotiating team...