Word: iowa
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...Democrats who vote in primaries are Catholic, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, a Democratic contender, is peppered with the question time and again. Though he personally opposes abortion, he supports the 1973 Supreme Court decision legalizing it-but some critics claim he had been ambiguous before the Iowa precinct caucuses (see PRESS). On the stump, Indiana's Birch Bayh is plagued by anti-abortion demonstrators who decry his leadership last year in the Senate against a constitutional amendment that would have outlawed most abortions. Sargent Shriver does not favor overturning the Supreme Court decision, but proposes setting up "life...
...recognizable as the White House, Viet Nam-or outer space, where three Sky lab astronauts discover that the nation is so bored with the space program that their congratulations are being telephoned not by the President, not by the Vice President, but . . . Stand by for "the Lieutenant Governor of Iowa!" Trudeau does not anthropomorphize his characters into Shmoos or possums, nor does he disguise the identities of real-life figures. On occasion Doonesbury has gone anachronistic: in a Bicentennial flashback, Paul Revere's feminist apprentice yearns to be a "Minuteperson." In addition, the strip frequently becomes an illuminated roman...
Died. Vivian Wilson Henderson, 52, economist, author and president of predominantly black Clark College in Atlanta since 1965; while undergoing open-heart surgery after a heart attack; in Atlanta. Describing himself as an economist who happened to be a college president, the University of Iowa-educated Henderson argued that the key social issue in America was not race but class. Said he: "We have programs for combatting racial discrimination, but not for combatting economic class distinctions." The rise in student militancy brought accusations of "Uncle Tomism" from those who saw Henderson's numerous board positions, including membership...
...Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, Iowa was a near disaster. Unable to set himself apart from his rivals, he remained an unfocused candidate-and largely unknown. Mo won a scant 5.9% of the vote. For Shriver, Iowa was even more of a disaster. With the Catholic vote lost to Carter, he garnered 3.3% of the vote. Though he was not involved in the Iowa caucuses, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford withdrew from the presidential race last week, citing trouble raising funds and the "ordeal of running a campaign...
Unlike the Democrats, most Iowa Republicans were not called upon to express a preference for a candidate at their precinct caucuses. But a straw poll of 583 voters-in 2.5% of all the precincts-was taken at 62 precincts. President Ford was favored over Ronald Reagan by a mere 45% to 42.5%. It appeared to be a setback for the President, who had the backing of popular Republican Governor Robert...