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...nation's registered Democrats and 6% of Democratic county chairmen prefer him over the other potential Democratic candidates. His camp abounds with "Kennedy men": Advisers Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Kennedy's Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz, Writers Richard Goodwin and Adam Walinsky, plus other lesser-known figures. President Kennedy's Press Secretary Pierre Salinger will be coming aboard early next year. McGovern himself was John Kennedy's Food for Peace director. Moreover, McGovern's posi-tion on the Democratic left is about where Ted Kennedy would be expected...
...reason for this lack of under-standing is that despite its wide acceptance in eastern Asia, acupuncture has been generally dismissed in the West as superstitious folklore. Only since World War II has it become the subject of serious scientific inquiry in the Soviet Union, to a lesser extent in France, Germany and Britain. In the U.S., the treatment is available principally in San Francisco's Chinatown. Even in its homeland, acupuncture was being phased out by officials before the Communist takeover in 1949. Then Mao Tse-tung realized that it would be impossible to train China...
...definition of the offense. Last April, they organized an all-day "rape workshop" in Manhattan, where they discussed such topics as "rape in marriage" and "the psychology of rapist and victim." (Child care was provided.) For women who cannot bring themselves to feel raped, there is a spectrum of lesser outrages to dwell upon, like being whistled at or ogled. Manhattan's Village Voice recently printed an essay "On Goosing" by Liberationist Susan Brownmiller, who furiously denounced all such male attentions as heinous insults, reminiscing painfully about her most memorable gooses from age 13 on and calling them...
Even more discretion is allowed bureaucrats in using the lesser degrees of classification. Most communications with foreign governments fall into the secret category. But bureaucrats have got in the habit of stamping documents secret simply to make sure that their superiors will read them They know that a confidential classification will hardly raise an eyebrow. As for unclassified material, it is all but superfluous. As often as not, it consists of the transcript of a speech that was delivered in public...
...reassure the Arabs while making moves toward Israel, the Soviets have been not only delivering guns but also buttering up politicians from Cairo to Damascus. The Soviet-Egypt treaty of friendship, which will be formally signed this week, has been followed by lesser concordats elsewhere. One was signed in Damascus last week, obliging the Russians to provide more economic aid for Syria. In Baghdad, a protocol was signed pledging Russian aid in developing Iraq's North Rumaila oilfields and improving irrigation on the Euphrates River...