Nation: John Anderson Breaks Away

He makes it a three-way race by saying he will run on his own

For months he had been presenting himself as the lonely independent, the thinking man's candidate, voicing unorthodox ideas that defy easy liberal-conservative classification. Last week John Bayard Anderson, 58, pushed his political heresy to the extreme by taking on the two-party system itself. His thick shock of white hair glistening under TV lights, the Congressman from Rockford, Ill., announced that he was abandoning the race for the Republican nomination and would run for the White House as an independent. His mellifluous orator's voice slowing for emphasis, he asserted:...