By Chad Bouchard, VOA News
Jakarta
At least 320 people are dead, hundreds are injured and nearly three thousand have been left homeless by the tsunami that battered the Indonesian island of Java Monday. Aid agencies are assessing damage from the powerful wave, which destroyed buildings and lives along a 160-kilometer stretch of the island's southwestern coast.
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George McGovern, a former U.S. congressman and senator from the American heartland, has made his mark as both a soldier and an activist for peace. In 1972 he ran as the Democratic candidate for president and lost to Richard Nixon.
Read George McGovern's speech accepting the nomination for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention in Miami in 1972, free from 4president.com.
George McGovern
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