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...among workers here at headquarters. A couple of weeks ago, when Kennedy threatened to file 30 minority reports, rumors spread that the convention would last five days instead of the regularly-scheduled four. Dixon ordered credentials to be printed for the extra day. Even after a Carter-Kennedy peace accord, the convention will last long hours. The right speakers may not appear during prime time...
...right-to-life groups are pretty much the same. You have to take a litmus test every five minutes or you're considered wavering. What we should have said in New Hampshire is, 'Well, fellows, we understand your position. I think mine's generally in accord. I'm running for President of the country, not the gun club.' We were all running for President of the gun club that night. You get the same in farm groups, health care . . . The whole thing is sort of crazy...
...Petersen met in June with Toyota officials, the Japanese press reported that a firm agreement had been reached whereby Toyota would build 20,000 cars a month in an idle Ford plant in the U.S. By week's end, though, both Ford and Toyota strongly denied any such accord...
...action culminated a long and arduous political fight. Senator Edward Kennedy first began holding hearings almost three years ago about the possibility of freeing the industry from some ICC rules, and President Carter sent his bill to Congress on June 21, 1979. In an unusual display of accord, the two rivals both lobbied hard for the measure. But the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations fought it. The A.T.A. spent more than $1 million on a public relations campaign to convince legislators that deregulation would mean increased prices, wasted gasoline and decreased service to small towns...
Begin's woes, and the possibility of his government's collapse, may have accounted for Sadat's equanimity last week as the May 26 target date for a Palestinian autonomy agreement came and went, with no such accord in sight. Earlier he had tthreatened to "raise hell" with Begin on that date if the deadline was not respected. But when the time came, Sadat gave every indication of being willing to wait a little longer for a possible resolution of the autonomy issue. No stranger to political troubles of his own, Sadat apparently was not about...