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Others under serious consideration as Reagan's running mate are Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, New York Congressman Jack Kemp, former U.S. Treasury Secretary William Simon and Donald Rumsfeld, president of G.D. Searle & Co., who was Ford's chief of staff and then Secretary of Defense. Reagan advisers have even discussed hawkish Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Henry Jackson, but they are more likely to be considered for Defense Secretary. The consensus is that Reagan will choose a middle-of-the-road Republican...
...convention campaigning, partly to prevent the Democrats from getting all the publicity, partly to cement party unity; he is addressing a series of dinners aimed at raising money to pay off the campaign debts of his beaten rivals. But his main problem is choosing a vice-presidential running mate. The two obvious candidates, Bush and Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, both have drawbacks: Bush is considered a weak campaigner by some Reaganites, and Baker is vigorously opposed by fervent conservatives displeased by his votes to provide federal financing for poor women's abortions and his support of the Panama...
...Navy's problem may be the most severe of all: it is short 21,000 experienced petty officers. In particular, the Navy needs good men for key supervisory jobs, such as boiler technician, machinist's mate and aviation bosun's mate. Notes a senior Navy official: "We're hurting for the kind of people we need most: aviators and nuclear-trained officers. They're bright and have had rigorous training. The civilian nuclear industry just gobbles them up, along with other engineering types, as fast as we can manufacture them." Example: last year the Navy had 138 nuclear-qualified petty...
...parties. And 64% say they agree with the proposition "You welcome John Anderson's decision to run as an independent, and you think it is good for the country." Much of the success of Reagan's candidacy will hinge on his choice of a vice-presidential running mate. The Yankelovich survey reveals that the first choice for that slot is George Bush. He is favored by 38% of all voters, while Tennessee Senator Howard Baker runs second, with 24%. Bush leads among all groups, Democrats, Republicans and Independents, and in all regions of the country, including the South...
...Cuban government threatened to levy $20,000 fines if the captains refused to pick up refugees. Then, when the ships returned to Key West with a load of refugees, the U.S. handed "intent to fine" citations to the skippers and posted Government seizure notices on the vessels. Protested one mate on a shrimp boat: "This man Carter tells us we can go over there and then tells us we can't. I wish to hell he'd make up his mind...