Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 13, 1971, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday december 13, 1971 Mcgovern is unorthodox candidate by William Milli ship Washington special owns sen. George Mcgovern until recently the Only one of More than a dozen possible democratic presidential nominees Actu ally to declare his candidacy recently spent two hectic Days in Illinois wis Consin and Minnesota stubbornly making a virtue of his Lack of magnetism. His is a curious perform Ance quietly underplayed to the Point were sen. Mcgovern breaking most of the accepted rules looks like the anti candidate. It is not that he fails to set peo ple on fire he does not seem to try. His speeches Are anti c 1 i m a t i c his Advance men do an excellent conventional Job of preparation. At Bloomington Illi Nois they had booked the vast indoor stadium of the state University Campus and assembled an audience of several thousand students with a sprinkling of local adults. There was a guard of Honor of pretty girl cheer leaders in hot pants and with uniformly Long shining hair chanting Mcgovern while a brass woodwind and per Cussion band in red boiler hats thumped out the Battle hymn of the Republic and Hail to the chief. George Mcgovern strolled in somehow looking Boyish despite his 49 years his status As a Grandfather and his High domed thinly thatched head and in a relaxed hands in pocket Man Ner turned into a serious discussion about the future of the United states. A few hours later he again lowered the political temperature in the banquet Ting Hall of a suburban Chi Cago hotel packed to Over flowing with initially enthusiastic supporters. When he finished answering questions in his South Dakota drawl a Man in his late twenties commented i like what he said but he did t say it very the conscious Mcgovern technique is to Send people away not tingling with a warm vague enthusiasm but thinking about what he had to say and believing that he meant every word of it. The following Day in Mil Waukee the comfortable Beer brewing capital of the ., on the shores of Lake Michigan sen. Mcgovern was introduced to a Lun Cheon group of local businessmen with the remark for George Mcgovern Charisma is spelt to be that is the key to this curious Campaign. Sen. Mcgovern is Selling Candor decency thoughtfulness and compassion but he re fuses to be sold like a bar of his speeches rarely con Tain Whit the professionals Call applause in any Case he treats his pre pared speeches in such a Cavalier fashion that and Vance texts Are useless to the reporters who follow him. When he does get applause he is perfectly Capa ble of cutting it Short to develop a Point this unorthodox behaviour makes him entirely credible As an honest Man with a mind of his own but raises doubts about his credibility As a candidate who can first fight his Way through the democratic primaries and then go on to defeat president Nixon. This is Why sen. Mcgovern who began campaigning openly last Jan uary is still showing badly in opinion polls. He is a Long Way behind both sen. Edmund Muskie who has not formally declared him self a candidate for Nomina Tion and sen. Edward Ken Nedy who swears he win not run. But sen. Kennedy is prob ably right when he says that sen. Mcgovern is very much underrated. He has been a Dove since 1963. But he combines left whig views with an ability to a peal to Farmers and he was not above paying a half Hoor Courtesy Cah on mayor. Daley the democratic party Boss of Chicago. Cash available sen. Mcgovey has two Strong conventional advantages. He has built up an excellent grass roots Profiti c a 1 organization in key slates and has a highly efficient Fand rising machine. Which is said to be bringing in enough to see Lam Stroogh face Early primaries. His is careless or he seems to leave Node is Usaj Flat is crated states is fee is Steft Tor Caa Ftfe Sar a television cameras. Moving through a crowd shaking hands does not appear to be a mechanical chore to him. He has a remarkable Talent for giving his undivided at Tention however briefly to an individual in a crowded room. He is a Good listener. At the same time sen. Mcgovern is methodically working to change his image As a single Issue anti Vietnam War candidate. His Promise to pull All Forces out of Vietnam lock Stock and barrel and end the barbarism we Are perpetrating on the peo ple of South East Asia re Mains at the Core of his speeches. But now he links the War and heavy expenditure on defence with High unemployment inflation pol Lution hunger and decaying cities. He Drew an audible gasp from an audience when he said quietly Illinois sends million a year to Washington in Federal Coal needs to grow Washington by the year 2000 the United states will be burning More than 800 Mil lion tons perhaps a billion tons of Coal annually to meet that fuel s share of about 2 Bil lion kilowatts of electric capacity projected As the requirement for that usage is about 500 million tons a year. Taxes. Of that million goes to the Pentagon including million for he promises to Cut the defence budget by million a year to end con s c r i p t i o n and build a smaller better paid professional army. He Demon Strates Overkill capacity by dryly remarking that his own state of South Dakota with a population of less than contains so Many nuclear mis Siles that if it seceded it would automatically be come the third biggest nuclear Power in the world. Loud applause at the. Same time he stresses that he is not a pacifist and makes a Point of recalling his experience As a bomber Pilot in the second world War. He gets loud applause from University audiences by promising to Grant an amnesty to the tens of thousands of Young americans who have gone into exile or prison rather than serve in Vietnam. But he quotes the precedent of Lincoln s actions after the american civil War in binding up the country s he places equal emphasis on the need for More generous treatment of. Men who fought in Viet Nam. If we want to get this nation Back together he says we need compassion and forgive he does however draw the line at War crimes. He told me on the flight Back to Washington that the Gen eral amnesty would not cover Lieut. William Calley convicted o f murdering vietnamese civilians at the Village of my Lai. War has the capacity of bringing out the worst in human he said but if an action cries out for punish ment it s Galley s. It was not an act of conscience but cold blooded behind George my g o v e r n s patient Calm manner one detects at such times a controlled anger that rarely shows in Public. If he allows it to surface he might cause some sur Prises in the new Hamp Shire Florida and Wisconsin elections next March and Early april. Course for indians Rivers Man. Special one of the first programs at the new Ooza we Kwun Industrial and environmental training Centre Here will be a business course to help Manitoba Indian leaders in their band administration. Subjects will include account ing office techniques contract management payroll program Ming planning and budgeting. The Centre occupies the site of the former Canadian forces base turned Over by the Feder Al government last october to a Board appointed jointly by the Manitoba Indian brotherhood and the department of Indian affairs. Indian bands in Manitoba have been moving toward self government. I n conjunction with the Indian brotherhood the Federal government has built band offices on several re serves and has turned Over to Indian people administration of such programs As housing Edu cation welfare and Job place ment. The Indian bands Are using their own funds and those from the Federal Treasury. Indian organizations and Indi an affairs department officials Are checking closely results of the business training course. The. Course is the second stage of a band finance and administrative program being presented to Manitoba s 54 Indi an bands and to any Indian businessman wanting to improve his administrative skills. The first stage was completed last year when Indian chiefs and councillors attended special classes at Island Lake Norway House Winnipeg and Brandon. Forty five of the bands and 200 Indian leaders took advantage of the course at that time. Elephants weaned at 5 Nairobi Kenya african elephant calves Are not fully weaned until they Are almost five years old. 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