Word: jessee
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"I'm just have to see Jesse," says Darryl Richards of East Harlem. "I think if Gary Hart or Walter Mandrel care cane people would boo."
NEW YORK Halfway between Third and Lexington Avenues on 101st Street, just on the border between the posh Upper East side of Manhattan and the Southernmost part of Spanish Harlem a group of about a hundred people are waiting for the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson.
"Early on, no one took Jesse seriously," says George Webber, a pastor in East Harlem since 1948. Webber notes that the newspaper originally was set against a Jackson candidacy, and only "belatedly realized that Jesse had strong support and could raise the hopes of the people."
Mondale, on the other hand, has almost no credibility with Hart's independent constituency, many of whom spurned the Carter Mondale ticket in 1980 to vote for Reagan or Anderson. These are the voters whom the Democratic nominee must attract, and Mondale has run just the kind of campaign that...
The long presidential selection process does serve a purpose. It can expose a candidate's faults, like Jesse Jackson's attitude toward the Jews [NATION, March 12]. Who would have guessed that deep down Jackson is a bigot?