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...9 Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants continued their violent dialogue, and the excitement surrounding the forthcoming South Vietnamese elections dampened somewhat when President Thieu announced he would run for the Presidency though no other candidate would...
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...By replying that "in my judgment such a ticket was not electable in the present climate of political opinion," I set off an uproar...
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...A shaggy six and one-haLf poundmale Yorkienamed Cerhie, eleven and one-half years old, toothless and arthritic, was lost in Central Park Mall according to the New York Times which also reported that on 21 September Senator Fred Harris elegantly announced his candidacy for the Presidency poignantly longing for "no more bullshit...
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...One prison guard died, and three prisoners were murdered, apparently by their fellows...
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...Bulgaria, celebrating the twenty-seventh anniversary of its liberation by the Red army, held a parade in Sofia...
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...24 The Bootblack Stand: Letters to Plunkitt from Senator Muskie and Senator McGovern...
...If Lindsay is prudent he will stay out of the Presidential contest, thereby saving his new Party a lot of money and avoiding the charge that he sabotaged the existing leftwing candidacies (McGovern especially...
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...You surely would not find any Communists at an antiwar or antigovernment meeting in North Vietnam, though" a few police might drop in...
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...The British discovered that they had 105 too many Russian diplomats on their famous island and asked them to pull down their antennae and leave...
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...LETTER FROM A WHIG (continued from page 4) of the established figures of the Democratic Party...
...Judging by 1968, Democratic Presidential candidates tend to run their campaigns on the same assumption that Democratic Presidents run the country...
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...20 Lawrence D. Pratt on Deceitful Peace and Between Nothinghess and Paradise...
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...Twenty-nine hostages were saved, thirtythree prisoners perished, more escaped...
...Nguyen Thai Ngoc, an official of the South Vietnamese Disabled Veterans Association, cut his thumb off as a protest...
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...Copyright The Alternative Magazine 1971 CONTENTS The Continuing Crisis...
...The Alternative would be a fine magazine if you'd cut the cursing and name-calling...
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...Perhaps it would be shrewdest of you to tell the truth, yet again - - you could make it your special gimmick...
...Congress' only black woman, said, on 16 September, that she will declare her candidacy at a New Year's Day annoancement, providing she can attract enough campaign contributions...
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...Then, and only then, can he realistically hope to get back into elective politics...
...The prudent course would be to work for a Democratic victory that might move him from Gracie Mansion to a Cabinet post...
...If Nixon carries New York it will not he by putting Nelson Rockefeller in Spiro's spot...
...How can I repair the damage...
...Otherwise, its over for the blacks and minorities...
...And as tropical storms coiled up their furies in the southern waters, the NinetySecond Congress reconvened...
...While answering questions from a group of colored people in California, ! inadvertently gave an honest reply...
...Here comes another drain on our campaign funds...
...This is obviously an instance of slovenly staff work...
...But even using these traditional methods of liberal finance, people run out of money...
...How embarrassing...
...In 1968 campaigning Democrats distributed telephone and airline credit cards like gum drops...
...On 13 September authorities delivered an ultimatum, it was rejected and twentyseven state troopers led by correctional guards attacked the 1000 prisoners...
...I mean that while on my recent fact finding tour of South Vietnam I was merely doing a little heavy rapping with a few antigovernment and antiwar idealists and the racist pigs tried to bust the place, you know what I mean...
...That assumption is false, as practical Democrats (Party Chairman Larry O'Brian, for one) understand...
...On the 23rd Justice Harlan retired...
...Nikita Krushchev, the Russian ex-politician, and Mr...
...The Wholesale Price Index went up in August as did unemployment (the latter from 5.8 per cent to 6.1 per cent...
...The story was reported somewhat differently by the less biased national media...
...Nixon journeyed to Capitol Hill, where on 9 September he exhorted a joint session of the legislature to pass his economic reforms promptly...
...Bulgarian~ raised many toasts to their liberators, who witnessed the festivities from various points in the city where they are stationed...
...Or maybe I am beginning to take too seriously those references to my rugged features as "Lincolnesque...
...And Saigon's Chief of Police asserted that the reason his constabulary had attacked the 14 September church meeting between anti-war and antigovernment Vietnamese and Senator McGovern was that the gathering was aswarm with Viet Cong agents...
...In Cranglio, Italy some two hundred chickens suffocated when they crowded into a corner of their domicile while seeking respite from the noise of a nearby rock festival...
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...In Uidapur, India, a crowd waiting to sign up for the purchase of motor scooters stampeded, crushing ten Indians...
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...Helms even shff,~ed me a few pictures of you at that church meeting...
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...The A l t e r n a t i v e November, 1971 27 CONTINUING CRISIS (continued from page 25) the American presidential candidate...
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...9 The famed Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies cited a fifteen per cent decline in America's infant population during the 1960's and naturalists doubted claims that Condors are nesting in Baja, California...
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...A later statement to the effect that he considered the election an expression of confidence in his administration failed to rekindle spirits, though a Saigon nightclub was bombed and Mr...
...Hurricane Fern menaced Galveston...
...eLittle controversy stirred when the Indiana University Journalism Department's survey found that nearly twice as many editorial writers for daily newspapers claim to be Democrats as claim to be Republicans...
...Afterwards the New YorkTimes asked the rhetorical question, "Should Governor Rockefeller have talked with the enraged prisoners...
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...Meanwhile he cannot do the Democrats much good...
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...U. Thant said he would not run for another term as Secretary General...
...Frankly I am not very certain why a church meeting full of antigovernment and antiwar forces in South Vietnam would have any Communist agents in i t at all...
...Thus a run for the nomination will make his new Party colleagues mad at him...
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...And the place was a church...
...Plunkitt: Last month a dreadful experience befell me as I attempted to kick off my presidential bid amongst the underprivileged...
...Why do they always have to result to name calling and ad hominus arguments...
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...Upstate will vote for Nixon, the City will vote against Lindsay, and a good time will be had by all...
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...Meanwhile New York's penal and governmental authorities scurried about trying to respond to what is called the worst prison disturbance in American history...
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...5 Terry Krieger: Democracy in Action...
...21 MOVIE REVIEW David Brudnoy on The Panid in Needle Park...
...And, in one small step for the USSR, a flight of Soviet turtles returned from space, on 21 September, "thinner, but more active," according to Dr...
...Name Address City, State & Zip Institution...
...Tom Wicker were allowed to talk with prisoners and to hold press conferences, and reinforcements were summoned while authorities waited ninety-six hours...
...2 R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.: A Whiff from the Highfalutin Women...
...That assumption is that the supply of money is infinitely elastic...
...Welfare reform was urged by the Nation's Governors, but not everyone agreed on what that meant...
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...Heralding his new economic program as but a prelude to "New Prosperity," Mr...
...In the United States practically everyone from Chief Justice Burger to residents of San Francisco's Chinatown-expressed chariness over the practice of "busing," though busing continued...
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...s~h t. Ag.ew "...stands almost alone among a welter of New Left, radical and revolutionary publications...
...Nathan F. Leopold, the ex-kidnapper passed away...
...George Washington Plunkitt, our prize-winning political analyst, has just completed a penetrating study of the last Congolese election...
...Harry Riding who defied anyone in the world to surpass him in eating hot mustard...
...More good news comes from Yippie newlyweds, Abbie and Anita Hoffman, who have named their new child amerika...
...eEayptian surface-to-air missiles downed an Israeli jet over Israeli-held Sinai...
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