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Olivas' professional counterparts are far less worried about reports of snowballing Kennedy momentum, and they minimize the effect of the senator's anti-Rose Garden barbs. "We have not witnessed any Kennedy charge since his speeches at Georgetown or Harvard. In fact, after the Georgetown speech, we got more volunteers just like Kennedy did, although he did get more," Flynn says...
...Georgetown, Kennedy lashed out at Carter's inflation and energy record, supporting what he terms "last resort" moves of gas rationing and wage and price controls. More recently, Kennedy "defined" his position on nuclear power, coming out in favor of a moratorium on new plant construction. To audiences across the state, he proudly displays his own energy plan, which stresses conservation, solar and low-head hydro power...
Kennedy began the row. In a speech at Georgetown University on Jan. 28, he had proposed an international commission to investigate Iran's grievances against the U.S. as a quid pro quo for release of the hostages. His suggestion drew little attention, and last week he suddenly sharpened his rhetoric. In a speech at Harvard, Kennedy boomed: "For months, the White House rejected a commission on Iranian grievances-which could have freed the hostages sooner. Now, at last, the President is about to agree to it. But the Administration stubbornly resisted this solution until I and others made...
...week's end Kennedy conceded, quite lamely, that he could not "claim authorship" of the commission proposal and indeed that it had "been around for months" before his Georgetown speech. But he continued to insist that the Administration had rejected the proposal until he began prodding. That appears at best an overstatement...
Carter has other potential problems. In his Georgetown address, Kennedy finally let his liberal colors fly as he grasped for policies to set him apart from Carter. The speech may not have picked up any new votes but it did awaken a national press corps that clearly looks to the left. (The press has recently focused more on Kennedy's prolems than on his criticisms of the President but this could change as Kennedy puts some ideological distance between himself and the President...