Word: afl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important that candidates qualify as soon as possible for federal funds. Mondale, Cranston and Hart have already raised the requisite $5,000 in small donations from each of 20 states; donations to them will now be matched by the Government, payable next January. In addition, the decision by the AFL-CIO to consider endorsing a candidate this December means that there will be an important miniconvention before the primaries even begin...
EVIDENTLY tired of being characterized as a "neo-rice" Old Liberal, Presidential contender Walter Mondale has decided it's time America "got tough, and I mean really tough," with its trading partners. "We've been running up the white flag," Mondale--no doubt eyeing the prospects of AFL-CIO endorsement before the Democratic primaries--has been proclaiming in union halls recently, "when we should be running up the American flag." With Senate tough guys John Glenn, Fritz Hollings, and Alan Crimson, he is backing the Domestic Content Bill--a disastrous projectionist measure design to shut foreign-made cars...
...Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady; former Texas Governor William Clements, a Deputy Secretary of Defense under Presidents Nixon and Ford; M.I.T. Dean of Science John Deutch; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former CIA Director Richard Helms; John Lyons, chairman of the defense subcommittee of the executive council of the AFL-CIO; Vice Admiral Levering Smith, former director of special projects for the Navy; and former Under Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey...
President Reagan declares his candidacy for reelection on Labor Day. "How ironic," comments AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland...
Mondale automatically inherits the front-runner spot, though that is not necessarily the best place to be nearly two years before the actual election. He seems the likely recipient of Kennedy's strength in the industrial states and of an endorsement from the powerful AFL-CIO, which might unite behind a single candidate before the first 1984 primary, something that was not likely as long as both Kennedy and Mondale were running. For the Democratic Party as a whole, there is a discernible feeling of liberation: many party managers around the country note, with an almost palpable sense...