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Hart, who has built his political career as a grass-roots outsider running against the party establishment, lacks most of the hallmarks of a traditional front runner. Aside from the Colorado delegation, Hart's avowed congressional supporters could caucus under the same umbrella. Old-line party financiers who actively supported Walter Mondale in 1984 find Hart's diffident style difficult to accept. "Hart I can't see," says a prominent Southern fund raiser. "If I don't know who he is, I don't know how he can win." Labor leaders, who remember Hart's blistering attacks on Mondale...
...Leaders of the 2.1 million-member Assemblies of God emerged from a caucus at Springfield, Mo., headquarters to pronounce that there had been no takeover plot and no blackmail, but an apparent "moral failure," which Bakker had covered up. The church investigation is continuing...
Roeder also said Dukakis used his time well by devoting most of one day to meeting Iowa's legislators, because the representatives and senators are expected to play a larger role than ever in the caucus process...
...helped set the agenda by introducing five different AIDS bills that call for, among other things, mandatory testing for homeless people seeking Government-funded medical treatment and making it a felony for people with the AIDS virus to donate blood, semen or organs knowingly. Howard Phillips of the Conservative Caucus has begun a direct-mail fund-raising drive on the issue. Other groups have begun lobbying on the Hill and in their communities. H. Edward Rowe, president of the Christian Mandate for America, has established the National AIDS Prevention Institute...
...There is still a serious need for an increase in funding for women, infants and families, and issues that are important to the Black Caucus," said State Rep. Gloria Fox (D-Roxbury...