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Moderate and liberal Republicans will meet informally in a location still to be decided next week to work out strategy for what some expect to be a tooth-and-nail fight with the conservatives. Michigan Governor William Milliken, who is organizing the skull session, believes that a takeover of the G.O.P.'s national machinery by the Reaganite right wing could only narrow the party's constituency; he argues that to survive nationally, the Republicans must broaden their base of support, as the party did in his state. Said he: "This is the reason we have won so many...
...than $100 million in damage there in 1967-should signal to both candidates that the cities' cries for help can go unheeded only at grave risk. Aside from America's mayors, however, most politicians seem blithely willing to take that risk. Michigan's Republican Governor William Milliken, for example, is pressing for a federally financed "Marshall Plan for the cities." But Milliken is simultaneously opposing efforts in federal courts to force the state to pay part of the cost of Detroit's school-integration plan...
Others receiving the awards at the university's 375th commencement included Elizabeth Drew, journalist; William G. Milliken, governor of Michigan; Jesse W. Beams, professor of Physics emeritus at the University of Virginia; William R. Hewlett, president of the Hewlett-Packard Corporation; and Franklin S. Cooper, associate director of research at Haskins Laboratories...
...farmers have exaggerated the extent of PBB contamination, and have used it in a few cases as an excuse for poor livestock management. They also insist they have found no detectable levels of PBBs in any milk, cheese or dried milk sold at retail since June 1974. Governor William Milliken has moved to resolve the dispute by ordering an investigation. But even as the Governor's probers were beginning their work, officials quarantined three dairy herds because of PBB contamination...
...equally gloomy and concerned. Said Illinois Democrat Dan Walker: "There should be some plan to do the job on righting the economy without hurting further the very people who are already being hurt. Maybe we're going to have to look elsewhere for leadership." Added Michigan Governor William Milliken, a fellow Republican from Jerry Ford's home state: "There is in my judgment a very urgent need on the part of the Federal Government to recognize some of the very immediate problems we face...