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...Strauss's three-room hotel suite. Strauss informed them that he had called Kennedy early that morning only to be told the Senator was too busy to talk about their differences on the platform. Jordan had a similar story to report. His counterpart on the Kennedy side, Paul Kirk, had not returned his calls either. "They're not going to play ball," said Strauss. The group spent the next 30 minutes deciding what to recommend to the President...
This, apparently, is what a time warp looks like if you happen to come across it in the middle of the Pacific. When the ship finally emerges from the relativistic tunnel, the date is Dec. 6, 1941-Pearl Harbor eve. Once the captain (Kirk Douglas) and his mates on the bridge (Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, et al.) get the mystery all sorted out, the Nimitz, in its full nuclear glory, finds itself in a position to intervene in history. Should it try to face down the entire Japanese armada steaming toward its rendezvous with infamy...
...state. Reagan led with 51%, Independent John Anderson got 23%, and the President scored only 20%. In Philadelphia, once a bastion of Democratic machine politics, a private poll taken last week by supporters of Senator Edward Kennedy rated Reagan ahead, Anderson second and Carter last. Insisted a gleeful Paul Kirk, Kennedy's chief strategist: "Candidate Carter is on a mudslide...
...three-hour meeting, requested by the White House, top Carter political aides failed to persuade their counterparts in the Kennedy campaign that he should end his challenge for the nomination. Said Kennedy Political Director Paul Kirk: "No concessions were made. Senator Kennedy is in the race all the way." His race remains very uphill. Kennedy trails Carter in delegates, 1,982 to 1,235, with only 1,666 needed to win. To have a chance, the Senator must persuade the delegates to agree to free themselves from a proposed convention rule that would bind them on the first ballot...
...scenario, Kennedy partisans will persuade the delegates at the convention to change Rule 11H, which requires delegates pledged to a candidate to vote for that candidate on the first ballot. This would enable defectors from Carter to abstain on the first ballot or to vote for Kennedy. Said Paul Kirk, political director of the Kennedy campaign: "Most of these delegates are free and independent, thinking citizens who care about the party and its direction...