ISSUE DATE: July 24, 1972; Vol. LXXX, No. 4

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COVER: Target: NIXON and AGNEW. (George McGovern and Thomas Eagleton).

TOP OF THE WEEK:
THE NEW DEMOCRATS: Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton was sitting around his Miami Beach hotel suite catching up with his convention preview issue of Newsweek when George McGovern called and asked him the question that changed his life: Would he run for Vice President? He said yes-and, as this week's convention cover story reports, the fresh-minted McGovern-Eagleton ticket promptly targeted in on Richard Nixon and Spiro T. Agnew. The Democrats had problems aplenty -especially with disgruntled Big Labor-and the early handicapping of the fall election left McGovern far behind. But they emerged from an unexpectedly upbeat convention in better form than most expected. For its coverage in Miami Beach, Newsweek deployed a team of editors, writers, reporters and photographers, most of them veterans of conventions past. National Affairs editor Edward Kosner, Washington bureau chief Mel Elfin and News Editor Don Holt directed the field operations.

Correspondents from Washington and seven other domestic bureaus plugged in with the rival camps and proliferating caucuses, and chief political correspondent Hal Bruno surveyed the field and filed to Senior Editor Peter Goldman's assessment of the ticket and the party. General Editor Kenneth Auchincloss tells the convention story and General Editor Richard Boeth profiles Eagleton. The 23-page report also includes: color photos by Lawrence Fried, Burt Glinn, Charles Harbutt, Wally McNamee and Frederic Ohringer; Shana Alexander's debut as Newsweek's newest columnist, a state-by-state survey of McGovern's prospects, Richard Scammon's analysis of what McGovern has to do to win, the diary of a young first-time delegate and the bittersweet reflections of two old pros. (Newsweek cover photo by Wally McNamee.).

ALEXANDER SHIMKIN, a slender, thoughtful Indiana University graduate, went to Vietnam in 1969 and for almost two years worked in community development for International Voluntary Services. In early 1971, Shimkin became a reporter for Newsweek. Fluent in Vietnamese, he roved throughout Vietnam and provided this magazine with perceptive reports on life and death there. Last week, only a few days after he had been photographed carrying a wounded South Vietnamese to safety, Shimkin and another reporter strayed into NVA positions near Quang Tn. His colleague escaped but reported seeing Shimkin, shouting in Vietnamese, fall to the ground as grenades landed near him. He is listed now as missing. For Newsweek, Shimkin, 27, is the fourth major casualty in the war in Indochina. The other three, correspondent Francois Sully and photographers Robert Ellison and Keisaburo Shimamoto, were all killed while on assignment for the magazine.

NEWSWEEK LISTINGS:
NATIONAL AFFAIRS:
Can McGovern work the magic again?.
How he won in Miami Beach.
Thomas Eagleton, the running mate.
Diary of a young delegate.
Swan song for the old pros.
The New Democrats.
Eleanor McGovern runs, too.
Will labor sit it Out?.
Memo from Richard Scammon.
THE WAR IN INDOCHINA:
A battlefield balance sheet.
The Paris talks: Hanoi changes tune.
INTERNATIONAL:
Ulster: the end of hope.
"Souvenirs" of the bloodshed in Belfast.
The slightly liberated Spanish woman.
Israel: trial of a terrorist.
Probing the death of an Arab guerrilla.
Philippines: a drive for U.S. statehood.
Apartheid: back to that old-time rigidity.
South Africa's "Othello-for whites only.

SPORTS:
Trevino over Nicklaus in the British Open.
The strange world chess match.
Those exciting Olympic trials.
BUSINESS AND FINANCE:
Doing business with the Russians.
James J. Needham, new NYSE head.
Cattle rustlers ride again.
The liberated auto salesman.
Autos: a bumpy road for VW.
New man at the helm of CBS.
MEDICINE:
A new approach to child abuse.
Fetus findings by ultrasound.
Menstrual extraction: a different kind of abortion.
LIFE AND LEISURE:
Empire-builder Pierre Cardin.
Rome's new American quarter.
SCIENCE AND SPACE:
Moon trips and commerciality.
Rats and their sex signals.
RELIGION:
That old-time religion, '72 style.
Stifling a theologian's thoughts on sex.
THE MEDIA:
How the networks covered the Democratic convention.
The media scene in Miami.
THE COLUMNISTS:
Shana Alexander.
Milton Friedman.
Clem Morgello.
Stewart Alsop.

THE ARTS:
ART:
Eugene Atget, conceptual photographer.
A supertower for Paris.
MOVIES:
A talk with actress Karen Black.
"Parades": stockade confrontation.
BOOKS:
Daniel Ellsberg's "Papers on the War".
Gail Parent's "Sheila Levine".
Two on the American Revolution.
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