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...irony of the present campaign is that all of the four leading center-to-liberal Democratic candidates who have held elective office--Carter, Harris, Bayh and Udall--are relatively progressive politicians elected from bedrock conservative constituencies. They are tenacious politicians to have survived such milieus, and it is very possible that each has more than his share of compromise, craftiness and downright dirt lurking in his political past...
...Jimmy Carter, a Democratic contender, is peppered with the question time and again. Though he personally opposes abortion, he supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it-but some critics claim he had been ambiguous before the Iowa precinct caucuses (see PRESS). On the stump, Indiana's Birch Bayh is plagued by anti-abortion demonstrators who decry his leadership last year in the Senate against a constitutional amendment that would have outlawed most abortions. Sargent Shriver does not favor overturning the Supreme Court decision, but proposes setting up "life-support" centers to counsel women seeking abortions on whether...
Operating on the brink, Bayh cannot compete on the scale of some of his rivals. While they have made profitable use of direct-mail appeals for funds, he is too strapped to do the same. "Even a small mailing of 250,000 pieces would cost $150,000," says Feldman. "At this stage in our campaign, we could use that money in better ways." One alternative under consideration is a nationwide television appeal for contributions, using selected stations. That would cost roughly $50,000, which Bayh can afford...
...meantime, Bayh supporters have been holding small parties and receptions for potential donors in such states as California, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. But a series of dinners organized in New York on Jan. 22, Bayh's 48th birthday, netted only $50,000. If Bayh has any hope of surviving the costly primaries, he is going to have to bag a lot more lean cats...
Senator Birch Bayh, 48. Evidence of abnormality in right lung is attributed to histoplasmosis, a fungal infection, but his doctor advises "continued monitoring." Suffers irritation of sciatic nerve in both thighs and "functionally insignificant heart murmur." General physical condition "excellent...