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Meanwhile, Kennedy kept fighting hard for the nomination, although there was a growing conviction that if he won his battle for a free ballot, the delegates -in what would be one of the most ironic moments of the political year-might choose another man. Meetings between Carter and Kennedy aides to work out compromises for the convention came to nothing at first, although some "progress" was reported at week's end. Kennedy could end up waging spectacular floor fights on 18 platform issues. Said he of some of the petty procedural disagreements: "That grown men and women have...
...race remains very uphill. Kennedy trails Carter in delegates, 1,982 to 1,235, with only 1,666 needed to win. To have a chance, the Senator must persuade the delegates to agree to free themselves from a proposed convention rule that would bind them on the first ballot to vote for the candidate they were chosen to support in state primaries or caucuses. Said Rick Stearns, who coordinates Kennedy's delegate wooing: "If Carter's people succeed in forcing that rule through, I can't see any way, short of armed insurrection, that Carter...
...Sinatra. Carter has Willie Nelson. But when John Anderson needs a friend who can pack a house, he calls on James Taylor. A single Anderson for President concert by Taylor in Charleston, W. Va., yielded enough signatures, to guarantee the candidate a spot on the state's ballot. Taylor -along with Brothers Livingston, Hugh and Alex and Sister Kate-plans ten concerts on Anderson's behalf. With five down, the Taylors sought reassurance that their man would go all the way. "You're not going to crap out on us?" Livingston asked at a Boston meeting with...
From the first full-scale convention in 1831 until 1972, the delegates actually did select a nominee, although the question was frequently settled by party leaders and bosses well before the convention met. In fact, no convention since 1952 has taken more than one ballot to pick its candidate...
...Bolivia's new President, said they had acted to reverse an "electoral fraud." Specifically, their aim was to block the election of left-leaning presidential Candidate Hernan Siles Zuazo, who had won a plurality of the popular vote last month and appeared assured of victory in a congressional ballot scheduled for early August. The coup apparently sent both Siles Zuazo and runner-up Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro into hiding. The junta announced that Gueiler had submitted her resignation; at week's end she and her Cabinet ministers were still believed to be prisoners in the presidential residence...