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...only has Ted Kennedy lost ground to Carter, but his once dominating position against the three Republican candidates has vanished, although he still manages to beat all three in trial heats. Kennedy barely edges Reagan, 46 to 42, and has an eleven-point advantage over Connally, 46 to 35, and a twelve-point lead over Baker...
...squeak-through victory against a patsy, either. Running against three serious opponents, Hayakawa achieved a comfortable eleven-point plurality over Robert Finch, 50, his principal adversary. Finch, once a close friend of Richard Nixon's, was California's top vote getter ten years ago when he won the lieutenant governorship. Later he served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration...
...begin retrieving the lower middle class from its alienation-a feeling that might, coincidentally, prompt many of them to follow a George Wallace in 1972 -the report recommends an eleven-point program of tax relief, job retraining and adult education. To restore some of the laborer's lost mythos, it suggests that the Government might even issue postage stamps honoring various trades. The Administration denies that it will make any calculated appeal to hardhat militancy, insisting that the report "deals with all people in a certain economic status, regardless of race." But it is not lost on the White...
Outside Income. "Our enemies are the national bourgeoisie and Yanqui imperialism," Toro announced to his "January 26th Compound," which is also known as the "Paradise Commune." Members adopted an eleven-point code of conduct. Among other things, it forbade fighting, wife-beating, card games and the "capitalist sin" of alcohol. Along with communal chores, members read from the writings of Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. At least half of Paradise's adults are unemployed, but leaders boasted that funds were coming in from bank robberies. As Toro said: "We do not promise...
Coolness to Israel. What started the furor was the disclosure of an eleven-point U.S. plan for peace between Israel and Jordan. The proposals were worked up for submission to the Big Four-the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and France-in the wake of the suspension of talks on the Middle East between Washington and Moscow. Though Rogers and several other State Department officials spent 2½ hours in Washington conferring with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban only 30 hours before the plan was submitted to the other members of the Big Four, they made no mention of what...