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An Independent Bowling Grwn, Ohio Student Monday, October 30, 1972 Voice THe BG news Volume 56 Number 28 Four years McGovern-- later-a world liberal side of still watching campaign coin By lathy Frau- million tons of bombs have been In 1972. he took that pledge one step By Kalhy Fraze grassroots organizations to be found. from about $83.6 billion to $54 8 billion Newa Easter dropped on Indochina-more than further Not only did he go to the Soviet Newt Editor During the primary race, local He would halt work on such special during the Johnson administration and Union, but he also made an unprece- McGOVern headquarters seemed to weapons projects as the B-l bomber It was late November, 1968 more than during World War II and the dented visit to mainland China He's been labeled a radical since the crop up everywhere, and they brought and Trident, and cease further Only a few months had elapsed since Korean War combined earliest days of the presidential their candidate the desired results. development of the ABM system. the whole world watched Chicago THE SOVIET talks last May campaign Without the aid of traditional big- He would reduce the number of police and demonstrators clash in the THE MOST drastic increase in produced a nuclear arms limitation I'is opponents claim both hisonginal name supporters. McGovern moved uniformed military personnel from 2.3 streets outside the Democratic bombing came earlier this year. Since agreement, a commitment to join welfare proposal and the revised from only a fraction of the vote in last million persons to about 17 million, national convention. then, charges have continued to mount efforts in space exploration-with the edition will destroy the country's winter's New Hampshire primary to a and cut Defense Department personnel The Vietnam war. directed up until against the United States for allegedly possibility of a joint mission by U.S. economy. solid victory in the June California from roughly one million to 761.000 then by Democratic presidents, was' bombing non-military targets, astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts by They predict his promises to cut $.10 race ALL U.S. TROOPS and Air Force still taking its bloody weekly toll of including dikes and the French 1975-and agreements to cooperate in billion from the Defense Department And. in spite of the confusion personnel would be withdrawn from American and Vietnamese lives. embassy in Hanoi environmental. technological and budget will leave the country at the reigning at this year's Democratic con- Vietnam. Cambodia. Laos, Thailand The economy was just beginning to When Nixon took office, student medical research mercy of foreign powers. vention, he managed to round up a and South Korea. In the European drop from its dizzy wartime heights unrest was rapidly building to the Several weeks after the visit, Ihe But once in a while, even the comfortable majority to win the theater. U.S. forces would be cut from Vote-18 was only a vague slogan danger point. It culminated in the United States announced plans for a candidate can chuckle at the charges. nomination on the first ballot. 300.000 to 130.000 China and the Soviet Union were still spring of 1970 when the President multi million dollar wheat sale to the McGovern is best known for his early The Democratic candidate contends untouchables ordered U.S. troops into Cambodia to Soviet Union. IN A FIVE-minule television opposition to the war In 1963. when the that the United States could easily live And the nightmare of Kent was yet to cut Communist supply lines and But the big surprise in foreign affairs advertisement. Democratic country still basked under the glow of with such reductions without materialize destroy enemy bases. was China presidential candidate George the Kennedy years and Vietnam was endangering its security Although the troops were pulled back Last year, the United States finally McGovern plays down accusations that anything but a household word. Although military and defense THE DAY THAT he would take over to South Vietnam by June-as Nixon abandoned its policy of supporting the he would lead the country along a McGovern made his first Senate industry jobs would obviously be as President of the United States was had promised--by that time campus Nationalist government in Taiwan as reckless path to complete socialism- speech criticizing the war. reduced, McGovern says he would use still weeks away when Richard M. unrest had become so violent that four the only Chinese representative to the or even anarchy-if he were elected Although he voted for the 1964 Gulf of the $30 billion cut from the Defense Nixon discussed his concept of the students were dead at Kent, two at United Nations. President of the United States. Tonkin resolution and against its Department budget to create new Presidency with a Newsweek reporter. Jackson State and many universities The United States backed a proposal i.'e smiles at his audience as he sums repeal in 1966, he later called both civilian jobs. "The President has a were shut down. to give both the Nationalists and the up his case: "After all. conservatives votes "mistakes." He believes more net jobs would be responsibility ...to lay out all the facts The following spring, antiwar Communists a seat in the UN General are really just people who worship created by shifting these monies to and to explain not only why he chose as activists held a massive demonstration Assembly dead radicals." WHILE IN THE Senate he has co- other areas because "military he did. but also what it means for the in Washington. DC. but that was the What kind of man is the "radical" sponsored a proposal to eliminate spending is among the least efficient future Only through an open, candid last of the big-time protests. THAT PROPOSAL was defeated, but senator from South Dakota'' What funds needed to increase bombing methods of creating and maintaining dialogue with the people can a Activists tried to arrange large the Communist government ultimately would he do for this country if he's raids in Vietnam and two amendments employment " President maintain his trust and his protests last May when Nixon ordered won recognition as spokesman for the elected President? to end the war All were defeated In his acceptance speech at the leadership " mines to be placed in North Chinese people. McGovern's political career has If elected, he says his Vietnam peace Democratic national convention. What kind of President has Richard Vietnamese harbors (described by the Then last February, Nixon became included four years in the U.S. i.'ouse plan would be to cease all bombings on McGovern said his highest domestic Nixon been during the four years since media, but not by the President, as a of Representatives and 10 years in the Inauguration Day and withdraw all priority would be to guarantee jobs to 11 the first U.S. President to visit he made thai statement What kind of blockade I. but no coherent nationwide Communist Chinese leaders in their Senate From 1961 to January. 1963, he troops from Indochina within 90 days of all who are able to work, either President will he be if he's re-elected demonstration could be arranged homeland served as the first director of the Food inauguration. through employment generated by a next week'' The meeting didn't produce any For Peace program. Before last summer's convention he "reinvigorated private sector" or VIOLENT demonstrations have all major formal agreements, but it i.'e made his first bid for the went so far as to say he'd be willing to through jobs created by the federal In 1968. the then-president but disappeared, partly because U.S. Democratic presidential nomination in go to Hanoi to beg for release of government. promised to de-escalate the Indochina opened the way toward normalization citizens are not as directly involved in of US.-Chinese relations for the first 1968 amid the chaos following Robert American prisoners of war. War through negotiations. the war as they were in the late 1960s Kennedy's assassination Much of his Vietnam peace plan is HE HAS PROPOSED a $10 billion I.'e said he was opposed to bombing time since the Second World War. When Nixon took office, about 3.5 Nixon had not only met his 1968 included in this year's Democratic investment in job-creating enterprises, non-military targets, blockading North million persons-a large number of pledge, he had added a Chinese touch ALTHOUGH HE didn't have the party platform, which states that with his primary attention focused on Vietnam or using nuclear weapons to them draftees headed for Vietnam- time to mount a successful campaign "after the end of U.S. direct combat housing, transportation, environmental bring the war to an end. to it that no one had expected.