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...Pennsylvania primary, where Carter claims that his rivals have a "last chance" to stop him. Carter not only has the support of Pittsburgh's mayor Pete Flaherty but also benefits from the fact that Philadelphia's mayor Frank Rizzo, who is Henry Jackson's chief local backer, is under heavy fire at home (see story page 18). Moreover, despite his "ethnic purity" remark, Carter last week won a firm endorsement from Atlanta's black mayor Maynard Jackson, which will not hurt him among Pennsylvania's black voters. Said the Atlanta mayor: "Jimmy Carter appears more...
...representatives handed out as much as $250,000 a year to politicians. After moving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas in 1966, he contributed heavily to the campaign fund of Republican Governor Paul Laxalt, whom Hughes for a time considered pushing for the presidency. Then he became a backer of Vice President Hubert Humphrey, contributing $50,000 to his 1968 presidential campaign...
...Kohler Jr., 71. three-term Republican Governor of Wisconsin (1951-56); of heart disease; in Sheboygan, Wis. The son of a former Wisconsin Governor and a member of the family that owns Kohler Co., one of the nation's largest manufacturers of plumbing equipment, Kohler was a solid backer of the Eisenhower Administration. His political career ended when he lost to liberal Democrat William Proxmire in the 1957 race for the Senate seat left vacant by the sudden death of Joseph R. McCarthy...
...Seretse Khama of Botswana and Samora Machel of Mozambique warned that unless real progress was made "within weeks, not months," they would remove restraints from black Rhodesian guerrillas anxious to use their territories as a base for operations. Even South Africa's Prime Minister John Vorster, a longtime backer of Smith, urged Salisbury to grant majority rule to Rhodesia's 5.8 million blacks (v. 273,000 whites); the alternative, he said, would be "too ghastly to contemplate...
...Powell view, which seems to be supported by Justices Burger, Rehnquist and Blackmun, apparently needs only one more backer, and Stewart, Stevens and White seem to be strong possibilities. If any or all of them join Powell, two results seem nearly certain. First, the extensive use of habeas corpus will be significantly cut. Second, virtually no habeas challenges seeking application of the exclusionary rule will be allowed, since such evidence is almost always proof of guilt, not innocence...