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...York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro, who heads the party's platform committee, visited the St. Paul suburb on Saturday, ostensibly to talk about platform planks. She is to be followed this week by Texas Senator Lloyd Bentsen and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein...
Three men stand out as Mondale's most serious vice-presidential prospects. None is widely known. If winning Texas is paramount, Senator Lloyd Bentsen Jr. would be the reliable bet. Bentsen, 63, is a tried-and-true organization man and very conservative for a Democrat: the liberal Americans for Democratic Action gives him a 40 rating, which is in the Republican range. Indeed, Bentsen's political differences with Mondale may be too big to gloss over gracefully. His views on U.S. policy in Central America-he has supported CIA aid for the contra guerrillas in Nicaragua and does...
...raise enough money to carry on a serious campaign. A vice-presidential race, even if it fails, would provide national exposure that might enhance Bumpers' presidential prospects in 1988. But his nomination in San Francisco in July, says Bumpers breezily, "is not going to happen." Why not? "Lloyd Bentsen would bring five times as many electoral votes as I would...
Until Mondale lost the Ohio and Indiana primaries to Hart a few weeks ago, it was assumed that he would choose a safe, "geographical" running mate?perhaps Lloyd Bentsen, to help him carry Texas, or Fritz Rollings, to give him some appeal in the South. But there is a certain bloodlessness in Mondale's campaign that leaves Democrats with a sinking anticipation of defeat in November. Some now believe that Mondale might put spirit and excitement into his race by bringing a woman onto the ticket. At least the right woman might bring a feeling of something fresh...
...reaction to the latest attacks on tankers, Lloyd's of London once again increased rates on vessels using the gulf, this time more than doubling the fee (from 3% to 7.5% of value) for ships sailing to Kharg Island. In Geneva, Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, declared: "What we are afraid of is that Lloyd's might cancel insurance for navigation in the gulf, and this would be equal to closing the Strait of Hormuz." Lloyd's denied the likelihood of such a cancellation. In any event, the world, and particularly...