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...before Mondale was done. Mississippi House Speaker C.B. ("Buddie") Newman greeted his party's candidates in Jackson, but refused to say how he would vote in November. Yet last week's jaunt seemed to confirm that even in the South, Ferraro is likely to be a strong asset. Said Lloyd Doggett, who is the Democratic Senate candidate in Texas: "If she can win in Archie Bunker's district, she can win in Willie Nelson's." -By Janes Kelly. Reported by David Beckwith with Ferraro and John E. Yang with Mondale
...family planning. The Administration will also inject its free-market philosophy into the population debate. In Mexico City, the U.S. dele gation, headed by Radio Free Europe Director James Buckley, will argue that government interference with economies is a major reason why world population growth has changed "from an asset in the development of economic potential to a peril...
...visited the San Antonio training center that year, and returned summers during high school and his 4½ years at the University of Pennsylvania (where, while putting himself through a ferocious training regime, he also studied economics, political science and financial management). His extraordinary motivation is an asset in a sport whose audiences generally consist of coaches and a few patient relatives. "Am I sacrificing something by doing this?" he asks. "No. Those people in the private sector are the ones missing out. They will never know what it is like to stand in the Olympic arena, see the flag...
...disappointing many of his female followers if he does not. Until the convention is over, Mondale's backers will be nervous about what the mercurial Jackson might do; even if Jackson does climb aboard the Mondale bandwagon, he might turn out to be more of a liability than an asset on the campaign trail...
...asset to have a leader in the minority community as superintendent," said Koocher...