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While the antagonists warily circle, Democratic leaders search for compromises, so far without any success. Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona, who was chairman of an ad hoc committee looking into Jackson's grievances, wistfully noted last week, "I want a nice, boring convention. It can't be too boring for me." A calm convention, however, would seem somehow unDemocratic. It also seems unlikely. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis/North Oaks and David Beckwith/Washington
...Jackson most clearly says he wants he cannot have. If the Democratic Party gave him the additional 400-odd delegates he demands to match his share of the popular vote in the primaries, it would eliminate Mondale's narrow majority and throw the convention into chaos. An ad hoc congressional committee set up by House Speaker Tip O'Neill toyed briefly with ideas such as adding nonvoting Jackson delegates to the convention and changing the rules so that Mondale could win with a simple plurality. Both proposals were rejected, and the committee instead promised to press for reform...
...only to reach out. His best friends have simplified these problems: tough Phil (Harvey Keitel) makes most of his conjunctions with his fists; Artie (Jerry Stiller) is hooked into the only thing that matters to him, his career, via his answering machine; Mickey (Christopher Walken) simply accepts the ad hoc life. For him all liaisons are intrinsically temporary, and cynicism, laced with drugs, is his sustenance...
Taking the lead as undergraduate activism waned, an ad hoc Divestiture Committee revived the perennial protest over Harvard's holdings in corporations that do business in the Republic of South Africa...
...conversations with President Bok and other high-level University officials, the Black activists explored the idea of a new committee to monitor Harvard's efforts to hire Black faculty and staff. Their leg-work came to fruition this spring when Bok agreed to the creation of an ad hoc group to recommend new ways to better recruit, attract and hold on to Black faculty and administrators...