MEDIA ADVISORY


FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GEORGE S. MCGOVERN
 TO DISCUSS FOREIGN POLICY AND ELECTIONS
 IN FORUM AT U.VA.'S MILLER CENTER ON OCT. 30 

	Former U.S. Sen. George S. McGovern, the 1972 Democratic
presidential candidate, will speak at a forum on "Foreign Policy and
the Elections" at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of
Public Affairs at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30.

	McGovern, who represented South Dakota in the Senate from
1963 to 1981 and ran unsuccessfully against Republican incumbent
Richard Nixon for the presidency in 1972, will be joined by three
U.Va. foreign policy experts: political scientists William Quandt
and Michael Joseph Smith and historian Norman Graebner.

	REPORTERS PLEASE NOTE:  A mult box for taping will be
available.

	McGovern's distinguished career has involved chairing the
Senate's Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, where he
worked to fight hunger and poverty in America, and again seeking the
Democratic presidential nomination in 1984. He was professor of
history and political science at Dakota Wesleyan University from
1949 to 1953. He has also taught at Northwestern, Duke, Columbia and
Cornell universities. McGovern is the author of several books,
including "The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914," "War Against Want,"
"An American Journey" and "Grassroots." His most recent book is
"Terry: My Daughter's Life and Death Struggle with Alcoholism."

	Quandt, the Henry E. Byrd Professor of Government and
Foreign Affairs, is an authority on American foreign policy in the
Middle East. A member of the National Security Council senior staff
in the Carter administration, he is the author of "Peace Process:
American Diplomacy Toward the Arab-Israeli Conflict Since 1967." He
is former president of the Middle East Studies Association and a
former senior fellow of the Brookings Institute.

	Graebner, history professor emeritus and a nationally known
historian, has written numerous books on foreign policy. He has held
the Compton Professorship at the Miller Center and is a recipient of
U.Va.'s Thomas Jefferson Award as well as many other awards. 

	Smith, an expert on ethical dilemmas of international
relations, is associate professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department
of Government and Foreign Affairs, director of its honors program,
and author of "Realist Thought from Weber to Kissinger."

	For additional information please contact director Kenneth
Thompson at the Miller Center at (804) 924-7236 or Bob Brickhouse at
U.Va.'s News Services at (804) 924-7116.
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October 18, 1996
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