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...almost certain that no candidate will win an outright majority by the end of the primary season, and it is becoming increasingly possible that neither Dukakis nor anyone else will reach the "critical mass" of delegate strength that will make it easy to corral enough strays in June to lock up the nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Return of The Living Dead | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...York (92-70, NL East, second): Once Jack Clark left the division, the Mets started checking to see if their set of keys fit the NL East's lock. With the strongest starting staff in the division, the Mets will have no problems humming the seams. Darryl Strawberry and Co. should keep the offense gunning. Dwight ("Dr. K") Gooden (15-7) won't be taking the early season off this year. Best player: Strawberry...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Guide to the 1988 Baseball Season | 3/25/1988 | See Source »

...black delegates' angers, Coretta King was booed when she spoke for Young. "That was yesterday," some delegates called up to her. "What have you done for us today?" Young slipped out the back door. Only when Jackson arrived and made an emotional plea for unity did all those onstage lock arms and sing We Shall Overcome. Jackson rebuked his followers: "When I think about the roads I've walked with Andy, and the leadership of Mrs. King -- her home bombed, her husband assassinated, her children raised by a widow -- she deserves to be heard." Those who talk about a "changed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making History with Silo Sam | 3/21/1988 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--The Democratic presidential candidates on yesterday found themselves stuck in a logjam of delegates that left none of them likely to lock up the party's nomination by the end of the primaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Democratic Nomination Still Uncertain | 3/10/1988 | See Source »

...prize in this mythic Southern battle--a whopping 2000 plus delegates and a chance to lock up the Democratic and Republican nominations. And beyond that a chance for the South to rise again. Said to say, none of this will happen...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Fasten Your Seatbelts | 3/7/1988 | See Source »

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