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Show McGovern predicts change By Curtis Starr ' Logan Correspondent I LOGAN-Participation politics will overthrow the bossei to create in Americans a new straight forward attitude about .overnment, Sen. George C. McGovern (D-S.D.) said Monday. Sen. McGovern who appeared in "Greek Week" festivities at Utah State University, called 1968 "an unprecedented year." American politics will never be the same and this is all to the good but we can't draw to the sidelines," he said. Because the events of 1968 will "open up participation in politics issues, including draft reform and a reassessment of our foreign policy. Sen. McGovern said that "the most important thing I have learned from the hippie movement is a general doctrine of love ... a kind of self renewing force that is capable, if properly directed, of doing much in our society. But he added, that student rebels at San Francisco State are involved in "a destructive effort to bring that University down." "These protest groups have an obligation not only to destroy the status quo, but to author workable alternatives," he said. to the average citizen, an event r-j r-j such as Chicago won't happen again," Sen. McGovern said. "The time has passed when a handful of bosses can make the most important decisions in American politics." McGovern said young people are reaching out for a more honest attitude in American government. "Out of all the probing questioning and protests, a new kind of American citizen is struggling to be born," said McGovern. "This American will understand that brotherhood and concern are more significant than man's intellect or unbrideled individualism." McGovern said the future . politician will speak his own , conviction and not what is popular at the moment. What Wallace and McCarthy followers had in common was their contempt for hipocrasy, he noted. These new Americans, Sen. McGovern added, will not back away from action on the big |