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...campaign with a resounding 2-to-1 win. In one race that did go according to forecast, he carried Maryland by 16 percentage points. The polls also showed a confident Carter to be leagues ahead of Morris Udall in Michigan and in front of Brown in Maryland. Instead, the Georgian beat Udall by only a whisker and lost to Brown by twelve percentage points...
...hour call on Senator Adlai Stevenson III, the Illinois favorite son who, along with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, controls 92 delegates. There has been talk of a Stevenson vice presidency. Though Stevenson, who has been reading everything about Carter that he can find, does not agree with the Georgian on every issue, he believes that "Carter is clearly in the ballpark...
...polls showed that even people who voted for Carter were not certain about his stands. Soundings over the past several months indicate that liberals who support Carter tend to see him as a liberal, while conservatives view him as a conservative. For Carter's opponents, that means the Georgian has misled the voters...
...most recent incident occurred on April 12, when a bomb blew out windows in the building housing the Georgian Council of Ministers. Another explosion at an aircraft factory last fall injured two guards. A fire gutted the city's major children's store on the eve of the 25th Communist Party Congress last February, and other arson attacks have damaged the opera house, two film studios, a sports complex and the laboratory of Tbilisi's Agricultural Institute. The incidents, complained the Georgian party's Central Committee, were the work of "carriers of the evils...
...instituted a thoroughgoing purge; at one party meeting, the story goes, he asked his colleagues to vote with their left hands, then demanded all the expensive foreign watches revealed on their raised arms. But Shevardnadze has not been able to curb all the wheeling and dealing in Georgia. Recently, Georgian Minister of Home Affairs Konstantin Ketiladze called for a "merciless fight" against profiteers and warned that "readers should not be under the false impression that the problem has been solved." The Kremlin's economic planners need no convincing: Georgia, where much of the people's effort is devoted...