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Senator John Glenn, who could never convert his once formidable standing in public opinion polls into a commensurate number of primary and caucus votes, gave up his campaign on Friday. In debt $2 million and unable to win anywhere, even in the South, where he had staked his last hopes on appealing to a "sensible center," the former astronaut had no choice. He declined to endorse anyone, and said, "I don't aspire to be Vice President"-but added, "If I thought it was really important to the party and the country, I'd have to consider...
...paragraphs later, he referred to Mondale's "crippled campaign." That stinging reference was dropped by the final edition, after vote tallies came in, and Hart's "bandwagon" was redefined as being limited to New England. Like the networks, Broder had difficulty incorporating late results from caucus states. As a result, the Post's Page One banner headline read: HART WINS 3, MONDALE 2. Hart took a copy of the paper, crossed out 3, wrote in 6½, and tossed it to Press Secretary Kathy Bushkin, saying, "Show this to [Post Reporter Martin] Schram...
...said was his final offer: a 7.5% Pentagon increase next year. "We're all supposed to be leaders," he told his G.O.P. comrades, among them Majority Leader Howard Baker. "This is a time for leaders to lead." At Baker's suggestion, the Senators held a 20-minute caucus in the Roosevelt Room. "Mr. President," said Baker when they returned, "we've got an agreement...
...broad coalition of peace activists, environmentalists and ex-Marxists, the Greens had promised an antiparty party that would rise above the infighting and compromise of traditional politics. Instead, the party has become fragmented, and fighting has broken out among the factions. Some Greens had hoped that the caucus would bring reconciliation. A battle over nominees for election to the European Community's Parliament, however, served merely to deepen the divisions further. Other festering disputes were left unaddressed. Said disappointed Petra Kelly, one of the Greens' leaders: "We'll just have to wait...
...chaotic caucus proceedings could only further tarnish the Greens' reputation with moderate voters. Green delegates to the Parliament, declared one speaker, should aim to "put sand in the gears." Well they may. Of the six candidates nominated by the party to stand in national elections to the Parliament this June, four of whom are likely to win seats, one is a Marxist lecturer once active in the radical S.D.S. of the 1960s, and two others have been sentenced to prison terms for publishing articles calling for political violence...