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...members of the drafting committee, a bare majority-eight-were Mondale supporters. They dutifully obeyed the commands of a rumpled, chain-smoking Mondale operative, Paul Tully, who hovered about the drafting table, flashing signals like a base coach. At one point, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Mondale backer, strayed by voting for a Hart-proposed tax-reform measure that Moynihan had co-sponsored in the Senate. Tully, a former Yale football tackle, lumbered over from his sideline post and put his arm on the Senator's shoulder. Sheepishly, Moynihan switched his vote...
...would say the medical faculty has been extremely active on this particular issue," Muller contends. The Hart backer emphasizes that he is not tied to any particular candidate, but would support Mondale as well on this issue if he were the Democratic nominee, "or anyone except Reagan...
...Maine 10th with a single, and Dave Gonyar came in to pinch run. Rick Bernardo bunted Gonyar to second, and Rob Roy got what should have been the game-winning hit. But Gonyar tripped over third base and had to hold. Marchese got the second out on a come backer to the mound, and Harvard escaped the inning when Weller caught Mike Bonlick's fly ball to center...
Mondale's most influential backer may be San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, Texas' numero uno Hispanic leader. Cisneros says that Mondale's "personal relationships" within the state's Mexican-American community, many dating back almost two decades, "engender a deep-seated loyalty that is hard to counter in a caucus environment." Because of rigorous voter-registration efforts, there may soon be almost 1 million Hispanics on the rolls, twice as many as in 1976. They will make up about a fifth of the voter turnout, and Mondale could win as many as three out of four...
Instead, Hart proposes using tax incentives to retrain workers and encourage industry to modernize. But unlike many, including Reagan, he does not want to abandon the traditional "smokestack" producers in the process. Hart is an early backer of Kennedy School lecturer Robert B. Reich's "industrial policy" to rejuvenate ailing industries using the government to negotiate compacts between management, labor, and the financial markets. Hart has also proposed a reform in entitlement programs to cut costs, and has advocated an active Federal Reserve Board to target interest rates to promote economic growth...