Word: intendent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their ballots to George McGovern, but only 52% of voting-age blacks went to the polls, compared with 65% of the whites. About 57% of the country's 15 million black adults are registered, v. 70% of the whites. Through registration drives in black neighborhoods, black leaders intend to sign up a million new voters and increase the black turnout to 60%-or 9 million in all. In this way, they hope to provide Carter's winning margin in the South as well as in some key industrial states and gain a bigger voice in his Administration...
...remain as strong as the Russians'. Then he gave a real zinger to the Legionnaires. He opposed a blanket amnesty for the men who had deserted or dodged the draft during Viet Nam, he said, because that implied approval of what they had done. But, he added, "I intend to grant a blanket pardon...
...well as pitch. He said that I was being very personal-I can't remember saying anything except that he was sort of a Southern-fried McGovern or Humphrey. Both Hubert and McGovern thought that was fine, as long as I mentioned their names. We don't intend to be personal; we'll keep this campaign on a lofty level. Jimmy Carter is afraid we're going to talk about the issues, and he doesn't want us to even know about them. Governor Carter is a mass of contradictions...
Would such harsh measures work? One man who insists they will not is Jerome Miller, Pennsylvania commissioner of the office of children and youth. Says he: "Locking up most juveniles is nonsense, unless you intend to keep them in jail until they're 60. The kid locked up is more likely to be trouble once he's freed." Jerry Miller, 45, a pudgy, rumpled ex-Maryknoll seminarian, has acted on that philosophy through seven tumultuous years as a juvenile administrator dedicated to keeping kids out of primitive lockups...
...Harrises intend to appeal, maintaining that the jury was prejudiced against them. Defense Attorney Leonard Weinglass insisted that the five men and seven women who debated the Harrises' fate for 8½ days had been "tainted." Two members of the jury panel, who were not selected for the final twelve, accused Juror Ronald F. Pruyn of saying in advance of the trial that the Harrises' guilt was "a foregone conclusion," a claim that Pruyn later denied on the stand. An old newspaper carrying a story on Patty Hearst's kidnaping was found...