Word: northeast
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...contest moved up the East Coast towards the major urban centers of the Northeast, Reagan's momentum held; except for a narrow Democratic victory in Massachusetts, the Republican captured most of the country's older industrial centers, including surprise wins in Connecticut and New York...
Though conventional wisdom has held that heavy turnouts in the Northeast helps Democratic candidates, yesterday's record attendance at the polls seemed to benefit the Republicans, who also picked up several unexpected Senate and House victories...
...this campaign also underlines the growing attention to the personality and character of the vice presidential nominee. Mondale, a protege of Hubert Humphrey, was nominated in 1976 primarily because of his strong ties to the liberal side of the Democratic party and his widespread support in the Midwest and Northeast. But in the 1980 campaign his appeal seems to be based at least equally on his personal integrity and low-key style. An easy-going politician who is respected by liberals and neo-conservatives alike, Mondale has to a degree counterbalanced Carter's aloof and sometimes caustic personality...
...people, thrilled by any show of enthusiasm for the president from his former rival, have asked Kennedy to campaign most heavily in the areas where he did well in the primaries. One Carter campaign official predicts that Kennedy's active support will make a big difference in California, the Northeast, and major cities, and with labor, Blacks, and other minorities. While on the campaign trail for the president, Kennedy refrains from opening old wounds by "concentrating on those areas of policy in which he and Carter are in substantial agreement," Drayne says...
...tour of the combat zone, TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart observed a major road-building operation under way between a point on theBasra, to the Iraqi front at Ahwaz some 100 miles to the northeast. Reported Stewart: "Civilians man hundreds of giant road-building machines night and day in an effort to complete the two-lane high way before the rainy season next month. Beyond its immediate military value, the undertaking suggests that the Iraqis intend to settle in for a long stay and are perhaps even preparing a direct communications network between Iraq and a future Arabistan...