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...that candidates qualify as soon as possible for federal funds. Mondale, Cranston and Hart have already raised the requisite $5,000 in small donations from each of 20 states; donations to them will now be matched by the Government, payable next January. In addition, the decision by the AFL-CIO to consider endorsing a candidate this December means that there will be an important miniconvention before the primaries even begin...
...rules, which make it more difficult for a dark horse to score an early upset. His campaign is better organized than any of the others, and his coffers are brimming. Mondale is the only candidate given a chance of winning a two-thirds majority at the AFL-CIO meeting, which is required to get the group's endorsement. His stumping for Democratic candidates last year has ingratiated him with party officials, who get 22% of the seats at the convention...
EVIDENTLY tired of being characterized as a "neo-rice" Old Liberal, Presidential contender Walter Mondale has decided it's time America "got tough, and I mean really tough," with its trading partners. "We've been running up the white flag," Mondale--no doubt eyeing the prospects of AFL-CIO endorsement before the Democratic primaries--has been proclaiming in union halls recently, "when we should be running up the American flag." With Senate tough guys John Glenn, Fritz Hollings, and Alan Crimson, he is backing the Domestic Content Bill--a disastrous projectionist measure design to shut foreign-made cars...
...Senator Nicholas Brady; former Texas Governor William Clements, a Deputy Secretary of Defense under Presidents Nixon and Ford; M.I.T. Dean of Science John Deutch; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former CIA Director Richard Helms; John Lyons, chairman of the defense subcommittee of the executive council of the AFL-CIO; Vice Admiral Levering Smith, former director of special projects for the Navy; and former Under Secretary of the Navy R. James Woolsey...
President Reagan declares his candidacy for reelection on Labor Day. "How ironic," comments AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland...