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President Carter defeated Kennedy by 45 per cent to 39 per cent in Sunday's Maine caucuses, a result that pleased Kennedy's staff after his 2-1 loss in the January 21 Iowa caucuses. California Gov. Edmund G. Brown received 14 per cent of the caucus votes in Maine...
Because he was the fifth delegates selected, Bok said after the caucus chances were slim he would win a convention seat in the primary balloting March...
...added, however, that his strong showing in the crowded caucus might convince the Democratic State Committee to name him to one of the delegate slots reserved for students under its affirmative action program...
...federal law, for the most part to send paid workers ringing doorbells throughout the state. Unpaid visitors talking up Carter include Miss Lillian, Rosalynn, Son Chip, Vice President Walter Mondale and former Governor Kenneth Curtis, who is now the U.S. Ambassador to Canada. Organization is always important in a caucus state, and Carter clearly has the edge: eleven of Maine's 16 Democratic county chairmen are working in his behalf...
...feminists are torn. Many are former antiwar activists and oppose a peacetime registration and draft of any sort; at the same time, they insist on equal rights and duties for women. Said Iris Mitgang, head of the National Women's Political Caucus: "I feel tested to the fullest as a feminist when asked whether women should serve. It would be inconsistent to say that my daughter should not register if my son must. And every step of my background leads me to oppose the draft." Karen DeCrow, former president of the National Organization for Women, argued: "If men fight...