Word: aprils
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Most sweeping of the proposed changes, which the party's National Committee is expected to approve at an April meeting, was the recommendation that all delegate selection take place within a period of 14 weeks or less-from the second Tuesday in March to the second Tuesday in June. That would delay, and downgrade in symbolic importance, Iowa's January delegate caucus, where Jimmy Carter first won national attention in 1976. To help build a party consensus, the commission further recommended that no candidate be awarded convention delegates unless he had received at least 15% of the vote...
...appeared that the Jordanian monarch might be on the verge of doing just that. With the peace initiative again gaining momentum, Sadat accepted a U.S. invitation to visit Washington this weekend for talks with President Carter. Begin is scheduled to visit the U.S. in late March or early April in connection with ceremonies marking Israel's 30th anniversary; the timetable for that trip might be advanced...
...Prime Minister Morarji Desai, 81, is such a devout Hindu that he not only refuses to eat meat but he refuses to be vaccinated against smallpox because cattle were used to make the vaccine. Now Desai has decided to ban the export of rhesus monkeys as of April 1. India is the world's largest exporter of the animals (20,000 last year), and the U.S. is the largest importer (more than 12,000). If Desai's ban takes effect on schedule -and one aide says the Prime Minister's "mind is closed"-it will jeopardize...
...Shpall '79, vice-chairman of the convention, shares Calabrese's confidence that by early April, at the latest, the convention will create a new student government constitution. "The group as a whole has not gotten bogged down," Shpall says. "We've settled some very detailed and important procedural questions, and now we're ready to get down to the actual writing of the new constitution...
...convention should finish writing the new constitution by April, officers of the convention said yesterday