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...Neill dismissed the merits of the immigration bill with a simple political question: "Is there any real constituency for it?" There were enough supporters of the bill, including such diverse leaders as the president of the AFL-CIO and the chairman of Exxon, to win Senate passage twice, the last time by the overwhelming vote of 76 to 18. Ironically, a recent poll shows that even Hispanics favor tighter immigration laws, contrary to the position of their leaders. But support of organized business and labor for the bill has been lukewarm at best. The opposition of various special interests...
...inclinations of the seminar's guest speakers. The list includes Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.), the Presidential candidate whose espousal of industrial policy made the concept a political force: Democratic elder statesman John Kenneth Galbraith (scheduled for later this year), and officials of the United Auto Workers and the AFL...
Walter Frederick Mondale, front runner among the seven Democrats who would be President, was on a roll last week. The board of directors of the 1.7 million-member National Education Association formally en- dorsed his candidacy for the party's nomination. So did the general board of the AFL-CIO, and this week leaders representing all 14 million AFL-CIO members are expected to ratify that decision, enter- ing Big Labor, with all its organizing muscle and money, into a Democratic pre-convention campaign for the first time ever. On Saturday a caucus of Maine Democratic activists yielded Mondale...
...paying off, as the endorsements last week and this amply demonstrate. Though the teachers and union leaders cannot always deliver the votes of their followers, the endorsements will certainly mean more volunteers and telephone banks for the Mondale campaign, not to mention the ballots of many N.E.A. and AFL-CIO officials who will be delegates in San Francisco. Three years ago the N.E.A. alone supplied about 15% of Jimmy Carter's delegate total...
...dismiss the movie as a factor or play it up gingerly. "It plays no part in our strategy," says Bill White, head of Glenn's campaign. "On balance, though, it's more of a plus." One Democratic Party strategist sees the expected endorsement of Mondale by the AFL-CIO and the premiere of The Right Stuff, both scheduled for next month, as a publicity wash. Says he: "In October, Mondale has the AFL-CIO and Glenn has the movie...