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...bill is still a live issue when the Democratic Convention meets in San Francisco on July 16, it may run into a political quagmire. Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson are all on record against it; Hispanic leaders, fearful that the bill's proposed sanctions against employers who hire illegal immigrants might lead to job discrimination against all Hispanics, would try to write an anti-Simpson-Mazzoli plank into the party platform. That, in turn, would make it more difficult for Democrats to support any bill that might emerge from the conference committee when Congress reconvenes the week...
Mondale fends off Hart and Jackson while seeking a Veep...
...gird for the next. With the Democratic nomination apparently in hand, Mondale loafed about his woodsy $200,000 house in North Oaks, Minn., swatted a tennis ball and pondered his choice of running mate. His aides, however, spent much of last week fretting about his unruly rivals. Gary Hart would not quit. Jesse Jackson was making threatening sounds. The Mondale camp's worst fear was that the pair would form an alliance that could turn the Democratic Convention into a political brawl. Having won the war, Mondale's men spent the week maneuvering on all fronts...
...pollos. The bill has been attacked as both too soft and too tough, and denounced as "racist" by some Hispanic leaders. Indeed, its opponents span the ideological spectrum from Jesse Helms on the Republican right to Jesse Jackson on the Democratic left, and include both Walter Mondale and Gary Hart. Less political critics question whether Simpson-Mazzoli can be effectively enforced; some are even afraid that the promise of amnesty might draw in more illegal immigrants than the fines against employers would discourage...
Zuckerman, a witty, urbane socialite who raised funds for Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign, might seem an unlikely buyer for U.S. News, a magazine that prides itself on a down-home flavor virtually devoid of literary flourishes and serves a predominantly Midwest and Sunbelt audience. Founded as a daily national newspaper in 1926 by David Lawrence, a syndicated columnist, it evolved into its present format after World War II. In contrast to TIME (U.S. circ. 4.6 million) and Newsweek (U.S. circ. 3 million), U.S. News downplays reportage of a week's events in favor of analysis...