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Cate was already out in snow-choked Des Moines with the G.O.P. candidates who had come to Iowa when TIME'S editors in New York scheduled the cover story on the grain embargo. Filling in for Cate in Chicago, Correspondent Madeleine Nash marshaled stringers (part-time correspondents) to assess...
Jerry Brown, the other major Democratic contender, criticized Carter for withdrawing from the scheduled debate with Kennedy and himself in Des Moines this week. The President argued that he should keep out of "partisan political" activity during the crisis in Iran. Brown, who had hoped to use the forum to...
But Carter controls the headlines and television, as he demonstrated again last Friday when he addressed the nation on Iran and Afghanistan. The Republicans face the difficult question of knowing how far to go in attacking Carter without going so far that they build sympathy for the man in the...
They call it the heartland, a term with appropriate connotations. When the Vietnamese boat people came to the U.S. last spring, the state of Iowa actively sought 1,500 for resettlement. When Governor Robert Ray toured Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand and returned with tales of starving children, offers of...
"We probably could have raised more money if we had gone to the corporations for big donations," says Ken Quinn, an assistant to Ray. "But we wanted all of the people of the state involved." In just a month, lowans contributed $250,000. On Christmas Eve a ten-truck convoy...