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Screenplay by JAMES LEE BARRETT, CHARLES SHYER and ALAN MANDEL...
...longest period was in Dayton, which planned a month-long shutdown. Energy emergencies were declared in Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and the city of Milwaukee. Florida's Governor Reubin Askew proclaimed his state a disaster area because of damage to citrus crops. Maryland's Governor Marvin Mandel sought the same designation: 1,500 Chesapeake Bay watermen were frozen out of their oyster beds and fishing areas by layers of ice up to 3 ft. thick...
...Republicans will have a chance that year to make dramatic gains in Governors' chairs. Only seven G.O.P. incumbents will be up for reelection, but fully 22 incumbent Democratic Governors must place their performance records on the line by '78. Possible G.O.P. gains include Maryland, where Marvin Mandel is still trying to stay out of jail on corruption charges and Colorado, where Richard Lamm has seen his support steadily erode...
Despite the charges (and his messy divorce and 1974 remarriage), Mandel, 56, retains his popularity. Defense lawyers are counting on that to further bedevil the prosecution. Mandel, says the defense, could hardly have granted favors since one of his accomplishments has been to separate his office from the awarding of state contracts...
...only federal statutes the prosecutors found usable in the case were an anti-racketeering law-originally aimed at organized crime-and the mail fraud law. The result is somewhat tortured-most evidently in a charge that Mandel sent a lie through the mails. The alleged lie was contained in a press-conference transcript that was mailed to a library. The use of statutes against officials has nonetheless been upheld, particularly in New Jersey and in Chicago...