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Among Democrats, former Vice President Walter Mondale is seen as a shade stronger now than in December. His lead of 33% to 20% over Senator John Glenn, the former astronaut, has stretched to a margin of 38% to 21%. Announced Candidates Gary Hart and Alan Cranston, both Senators, trail distantly at 4% each...
...have not heard from you in a while, and I'm concerned. I listen to Senator Alan Cranston's gloomy speeches and read the doomsayers in the Washington Post, and it makes me fear the bank has foreclosed on the old print shop or you are so weak from hunger that you can't write...
...when Republican Senator Charles Percy, chairman of the committee, called a meeting last week to vote on Adelman, Democrat Alan Cranston gave the group copies of a 1981 story from the New York Daily News in which Adelman was quoted as saying that arms control negotiations are useful only for "political reasons. I think it's a sham." Cranston then made a motion to delay voting on Adelman, apparently assuming that Percy had a majority in Adelman's favor. Percy, presumably under the same impression, sharply opposed the motion...
...excused from taking a crash course in a subject upon which, until now, he has not concentrated. The President can then enjoy that privilege so rare in human experience, a second choice." With that, Percy knew the vote would be 9 to 8 against the appointment. He turned to Cranston and said, "I am going to ask you to renew your motion." Amid the laughter, the committee agreed, 15 to 2, to postpone a final decision...
Adelman, who holds a Ph.D. in African studies from Georgetown University, claimed that he did "not recall" describing arms control as "a sham" and that it was not his view, either in 1981 or at present. Percy tentatively agreed, at Cranston's urging, to hold a committee hearing on whether Adelman had been quoted accurately in the Daily News...