Word: favorable
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...both London and Washington to continue pressing the Salisbury government and the Patriotic Front to agree to attend an all-parties conference before the end of the year. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and the other front-line Presidents, who have been working jointly for a Rhodesian settlement, still favor such a conference. So does Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's somewhat estranged partner in the Patriotic Front. Mugabe is not nearly as popular a political figure as Nkomo, but because he controls at least two-thirds of the guerrillas who are fighting inside Rhodesia, he must obviously be a party...
...that, however, one cannot help comparing the jumpy life of this film to the becalmed chill of that other recent assault on the sterility of bourgeois life, Woody Allen's Interiors. The contrast is all in favor of Altman. The people in A Wedding are capable of bursting their schematic bounds, of bouncing into wayward life and, in an odd way, undercutting the director's underlying message of disapproval. In the end, Altman the observant artist manages to subvert Altman the highly conventional social critic. -Richard Schickel
...timing and content of Stage Two will be decided by Carter himself, and as usual he is getting conflicting advice. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal and Federal Reserve Board Chairman William Miller want him to start a tough program immediately. Vice President Walter Mondale and some other advisers also favor a strong program-but after the November congressional elections. A third group, including Domestic Policy Director Stuart Eizenstat, wants a relatively mild program, because a hard one would hurt Carter with labor and minority groups...
Senate majority leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) said Saturday that the fight to pass the compromise is "virtually over the top." A "conservative" count lists 49 votes in favor of the bill, 37 opposed and 14 "question marks," Byrd said...
...Associated Press poll reported that 48 Senators were in favor of the bill, 39 against it, and 13 undecided...