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Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Mondale and Senators Fritz Hollings of South Carolina and Alan Cranston of California, condemned Reagan's approach and instead proposed more generous federal support. Cranston offered a plan featuring financial bonuses for improving test scores. Topping the $11 billion program Mondale announced six weeks ago, Hollings unveiled a $14 billion program that would give $5,000-a-year raises to all 2.3 million public school teachers. Hollings also borrowed from the Bard: "Shall the public schools of this land be bound in shallows and in miseries, or shall we take the tide at the flood...
...promised. When he sat listening to Walter Mondale tell a California convention of Democrats that if elected he would right now, today, get Soviet Leader Yuri Andropov on the hot line and arrange a meeting right now, that very afternoon, Glenn in private showed disdain. He spotted Candidate Alan Cranston wearing a button that read STOP ACID RAIN NOW and shook his head. The emphasized now was too much for him. Glenn will offer no pies in the sky. "I'm just not going to run that way," he said...
...something called national industrial policy. Its advocates include labor unions, numerous Democratic politicians, a few economists and even some prominent members of the business community, including Felix Rohatyn and Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson. The idea comes in different forms and goes by various names. Democratic Presidential Contender Alan Cranston backs Rohatyn's proposal for a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, patterned on the agency set up during the Depression, to loan money to needy industries. A group of five Democratic Congressmen led by Stanley Lundine of New York introduced a bill this month that would, among other things, launch...
...sixth announced candidate, and perhaps the last, to enter the race for the 1984 Democratic nomination. Glenn's Senate colleague, Fritz Hollings of South Carolina, earlier in the week joined the field, which already included former Vice President Walter Mondale, Colorado Senator Gary Hart, California Senator Alan Cranston and former Florida Governor Reubin Askew...
Already, the contenders for the nomination are seeking Pepper's support. Senator Alan Cranston has even listed Pepper as a possible running mate if the Californian were to succeed in his long-shot pursuit of the nomination. Such a Democratic ticket, with a combined age of 154 at election time, would accomplish the impossible: it would make a Republican team of Reagan and Vice President George Bush (combined age 133) look young...