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...feminist pressure if he chooses a woman vice-presidential candidate, or of grievously 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...
...reports from California, turned on his powers of persuasion. He made some 50 telephone calls, reaching such party luminaries as Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and Alabama Governor George Wallace. The unstated threat: Mondale was certain to win, and late arrivals on the bandwagon were less likely to be remembered favorably by the candidate. About 40 recipients of the Mondale message took it seriously enough to join...
Hart hoped to use his California victory to block the Mondale bandwagon. But he was slow to capitalize on it, mainly because he had been caught off guard by the magnitude of his California win. His last day of campaigning had gone dismally. After some morning stumping in New Jersey, where his weariness had earlier caused him to praise a supporter for coming "here for the New Hampshire primary," Hart's aides found that early exit polls indicated he was going to lose the state. Shortly after his chartered Boeing 720 took off from Philadelphia, an engine caught fire...
...financial operations of Moon's church, which sanctioned his practice of holding in his own name $1.7 million, among other church assets, and using some of the money for personal purposes. The jury was convinced that Moon was illegally dodging the IRS. Despite the leader's ecumenical bandwagon of support, the court rejected his petition for a hearing. Moon's lawyers, led by Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe, say they will now go back to the trial court to make new arguments that the Government improperly sought to persecute him. Unless Tribe succeeds, Moon will enter a federal...
...about a month every four years, the Register rises into the ranks of the nation's most influential dailies. Then, after the Iowa presidential caucuses are over and the bandwagon of national political reporters moves on to other states, the paper resumes its normal role as one of the state's most powerful and respected institutions. Billed truthfully if somewhat immodestly as "the newspaper Iowa depends upon," the Register circulates in all 99 counties, and it relentlessly stresses the local angle in news events. Says former Washington Post Ombudsman William Green: "It is enormously influential in its state...