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...allowed in food." But public outrage against the saccharin ban is so vehement-in some congressional offices it accounted for two of every three letters and phone calls from constituents last week-as to make it likely that some exceptions to the Delaney amendment will be enacted. Representative Barbara Mikulski, a Baltimore Democrat and a dieter who has "just lost 50 pounds," says that the saccharin ban reminds her of Prohibition: "People will use the stuff anyway. I can envision speakeasies selling diet soda...
...Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said that she was "the only person in Congress shorter than Jimmy Carter. I hope to be close to him and get things done...
...stumped on this issue. Jimmy Carter's early runaway, Ronald Reagan's rebound and Jerry Brown's recent prominence can be credited at least as much to their appeal as non-Washington, untainted, somewhat iconoclastic candidates as to their substantive programs. Beaming at Brown, Barbara Mikulski, a candidate for Congress from Baltimore, said, "At the risk of sounding a little Buddhist myself, people are attracted by this new energy...
...pride of Democratic hopefuls moved around constantly, trying to win friends and influence delegates. The tone was set by the party captains, led by Chairman Robert Strauss, the chief architect of the convention and engineer of compromise (see box next page). They agreed with Baltimore's Barbara Mikulski, who declared: "We must return to the policy of coalition; the new coalition of the 1960s must combine with the old coalition of the 1930s...
...party right - notably the AFL-CIO - desired no hint of quotas that might dilute its traditional power in par ty affairs. Going into Kansas City, Strauss had managed to get both sides to agree to a compromise that had been worked out by a commission headed by Mikulski in drawing up the 1976 rules...