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Champagne corks popped along the Gulf Coast last week as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced the selection of nine cities as home ports for 29 warships. In what Senator Lloyd Bentsen called "great news for Texas," his state won some $109 million of the $264 million in annual Pentagon payroll spending. Principal beneficiary was Corpus Christi, which will get the newly refurbished World War II battleship Wisconsin, as well as a cruiser, a destroyer, a minesweeper and the Lexington, an aircraft carrier used for training purposes. Together, the ships will mean an estimated 6,500 new military and civilian jobs...
...minded women commencement speakers, Northern Ireland's Betty Williams, co-winner of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize, told graduating seniors at Quinnipiac College in Hamden, Conn., "Men have made enough mess of the world, and it's about time they moved over." At Texas A& M, Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen was more ecumenical in his exhortation: "You are our best hope for the future," he said. "Don't blow it." A sampling of the season's other commencement addresses...
...thoughtful leadership than, to use Jackson's words, "a p.r. parade." The charge is that Mondale has been too obviously wooing party blocs: women (Ferraro, Collins and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein); blacks (Mayors Thomas Bradley of Los Angeles and Wilson Goode of Philadelphia); Hispanics (Cisneros). Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was the lone white male...
...methodical catering to constituencies was going on as well at Mondale's home, in a suburb of St. Paul. The former Veep began his formal search for a running mate by interviewing a black, a Southerner and a woman: Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, followed by Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Although most observers said his selection was unlikely, Mayor Bradley, the son of a sharecropper, touched reporters by reminding them how remarkable it was that a presidential nominee would even consider a black running mate. A female running mate (more probably Congresswoman...
Many in the Mondale camp are lukewarm about Senator Bentsen, whose campaign style is soporific at best, though Georgia Party Chairman Bert Lance made a strong case for him when he visited Mondale. He warns, "If Mondale can't win the South, he can't be elected President." Another strong contender from the South is Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, who is expected to visit North Oaks in early July. Governor Mario Cuomo of New York, once considered a possibility, has firmly removed himself from consideration; he will, however, give the keynote speech at the convention...