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...State Department, whom Carter had just designated as head of the new Cambodian relief effort, resigned last week to join the Kennedy campaign. Carter accepted the resignation with a snappish note. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne told Carter three weeks ago that she would support him, according to John White, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but last week she announced her pledge to Kennedy. This gives the Massachusetts Senator an important advantage in the critical Illinois primary next March. Morris Dees, Carter's chief fund raiser in 1976, switched sides to join Kennedy. Said he: "I am not disaffected...
Concerned that his own re-election apparatus may not be adequate, Carter appears on the verge of some major shakeups. Campaign Manager Tim Kraft is a likely victim. Former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss is considering abandoning his job as Special Ambassador to the Middle East to assume direction of the Carter-Mondale Committee...
Horner said she is concerned about the social limits to growth and the economic triangle of basic research, innovation and production, adding that her work as chairman of a National Science Foundation task force on research would contribute to her understanding of the issues...
...chairman of the committee, sources said, is Jack P. Ruina, MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences. Ruina could not be reached for comment yesterday...
Richard Wilson, professor of Physics, said a State Department official phoned him on Wednesday. Wilson, who is the chairman of a Massachusetts committee now investigating the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident, said the evidence he has seen "seems to be fairly convincing" that the September 22 event was a nuclear explosion...