M. Stanton Evans, an early leader of the conservative movement in American politics and an author of its central manifesto, the Sharon Statement, died on Tuesday at a nursing home in Leesburg, Va. …
Mr. Evans was the editor of The Indianapolis News, chairman of the American Conservative Union, a radio and television commentator, a journalism teacher and the author of a raft of books, including a defense of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin in his anti-communist crusade. CONT.
Adam Clymer, New York Times