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...terms, Hart's gentlemanly approach suggested that his would be more of a symbolic reach for attention and influence at the convention than a serious final drive for the prize. He and his delegates would get their well-earned spotlight in the party's prime-time televised assembly. To abandon his bid for the nomination and withdraw his name completely from consideration at the convention would reduce his clout in shaping the party's platform and in working with Jackson to overhaul the delegate selection rules, which were shown to be unfair this year. "The 1,200 delegates...
...Prime Minister of Egypt since January 1982, secretary-general of the ruling National Democratic Party, and No. 2 man in the regime of President Hosni Mubarak; of a heart attack, following a seizure three weeks ago that was aggravated by his refusal to follow doctors' orders to abandon strict fasting during the holy month of Ramadan; in Cairo. A Deputy Prime Minister under President Anwar Sadat, Mohieddin formed the first Mubarak Cabinet after Sadat's assassination in October 1981. Though Mubarak praised him as having done his duty "to perfection," the Prime Minister had been criticized...
...hears Voices through her eyes; a romantic gallant (Mark Linn-Baker) who is haunted by nightmares of dismemberment and memories of an unsuitable recent job sweeping up dead dogs from the road; a sometime belle (Patricia Richardson) who finds it easy to leave her husband but impossible to abandon her clock col lection; and a carnival balloon salesman (Budge Threlkeld), cheerfully wondering which of the three major diseases inhabiting his body will kill...
...student-faculty forum sponsored by the Third World Coalition erupted in heated argument when students assailed faculty hiring practices as racially biased. Demanding a commitment to affirmative action, students called on the faculty to abandon exclusive hiring criteria that allegedly favor Ivy League law review editors at the expense of diversity. And students overwhelmingly endorsed a Law School Council resolution calling for stepped-up minority recruitment efforts...
...there is a Republican victory this fall, the Democratic Party leaders will blame Jesse Jackson. Jackson will also be accused if Jews and others leave the Democratic ranks. If Jesse Jackson becomes the scapegoat because he has spoken out on racism, maybe blacks should also abandon the Democratic Party...