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...muscle and organized brilliantly to prevail in New York City's Madison Square Garden. But the blue standards of Edward Kennedy waved in defiance, then blazed across the floor in a bittersweet celebration of the vanquished Senator's finest hour?an impassioned call to the Democratic Party not to abandon its compassionate past. The masterly address set even some Carter delegates to weeping. In a convention devoid of suspense but filled with personal drama, the President won renomination yet lost much of the glory to the man he so handily defeated...
...wore a pinstripe suit, and whenever he stepped out of the trailer he fastidiously covered his bottle of beer with a brown paper bag. Strauss, in white shirtsleeves, leaned forward on the couch, a phone to his ear. A call had just come from the Maine delegates threatening to abandon Carter unless they received a statement from their favorite son, Ed Muskie, the Secretary of State, that he definitely would not run. Jordan quickly picked up another phone, dialed the President at Camp David and asked him to get Muskie to make the call...
...from the floor filled the trailer. A call came in from Carl Wagner, a top Kennedy aide, and Tim Kraft cupped his hand to his ear and listened to an offer from the Senator. From the couch, Strauss watched intently. As Kraft repeated the terms out loud-Kennedy would abandon the agreed-upon roll call votes if Carter would concede three economic planks calling for wage and price controls, a jobs program and giving priority to fighting unemployment-Strauss got to his feet and let loose. "The hell with that," he said. "No deal. Get Hamilton in here...
...Saudi statement was also designed to step up pressure on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to abandon the Camp David peace process and break relations with Israel. Shortly after the Knesset's action on Jerusalem, Sadat shot off an 18-page letter to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, explaining that he had no choice but to suspend the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy (see box). Sadat's decision won him plaudits among his estranged Arab neighbors. Morocco's King Hassan II and Jordan's King Hussein have joined the Saudis in trying to lure Sadat back...
...pummelings from discontented workshoppers and journalists. Soleri and his group shrug them off. Their commitment to the future certainly seems sincere. They are people who want to be part of something big and good and natural. Each year they cele brate the solstices and the equinoxes with all the abandon of 18th century English villagers gamboling round the Maypole on May Day. It was during one of these festivals that a cast-aluminum figure of Icarus was hung from the top of a 34-ft. vault, where it remained for many months. The symbolism was perhaps unintended, but telling...