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...Administration. But the election was close largely because so many voters were worried about taking a chance on Carter. After all of the national debates, after all the articles about his life and policies, the people still felt that there was some unexposed dimension about him. Says Public Opinion Analyst Daniel Yankelovich: "In the preWatergate, pre-Viet Nam era, the people were more willing to take a chance. Now they have indeed taken that chance, but by the slimmest of margins?and with enormous reservations...
...Greek seas are simply a corridor for the vast trade in arms that is now going on in the eastern Mediterranean." In all, at least 10,000 illegal weapons have been confiscated by Greek authorities since the beginning of this year. "A mere dribble," sniffs one Western intelligence analyst, who estimates that the number of weapons flowing illegally through Greek ports can run as high as tens of thousands each month...
...guessed wrong in pronouncing Morris Udall the victor of last April's Wisconsin primary (Carter came from behind during the lobster shift), officials of all three networks said they would stress accuracy over speed on Election Night. NBC, for example, forbade staff members to tell its vote analysts about any competitors' returns, for fear of hastening NBC projections. Somewhere along the way, however, caution failed to thwart competitiveness. When Sheehan learned that CBS had awarded Pennsylvania to Carter, he phoned an ABC analyst and said, "CBS just called Pennsylvania and it looks good." CBS's early boldness...
Charles Stoner, the Copy Services supervisor who fired Trudel, was removed earlier this year from the Service. Stone now works as a "copy systems analyst" in Holyoke Center...
...RECENT ARTICLE in the New Republic, public opinion analyst Daniel Yankelovich explained that in the last few weeks of the presidential campaign a large number of voters will be focusing their decisions. The voters, Yankelovich suggests, are essentially satisfied with their judgment of Gerald Ford as a man of openness, decency, honesty and straight-forwardness. While it is not clear that this judgment will play a key role in the voters' decision, it stands in sharp contrast to their perception of Jimmy Carter as a man of mystery, even after the two months of post-Labor Day campaigning...