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Strauss and Jordan got on the phones immediately to key Carter delegations - Illinois, Ohio, the Southern states - outlining the new position, namely to yield on the planks on job subsidies and fighting unemployment. Some delegations, like Ohio, bitterly resented the decision. Several others called the trailer to object. "It's tough," said Strauss to Jordan. "A lot of these guys broke their backs for us." Finally the time had run out, the Kennedy fever on the floor was holding at a peak. Strauss and Jordan had no time to call the President to ask for directions; they...
However small and skeptical, the black vote also could be a key factor in the coming election, and it was the object of ardent wooing last week by all four candidates. The courtship occurred most directly in the regal grand ballroom of the New York Hilton, site of the annual convention of the National Urban League, which for 70 years has helped blacks to get jobs, housing and education...
...with indignation, the statement from the Israeli Prime Minister's office had the ring of Menachem Begin's personal rhetoric. For the fifth time in 24 hours, the government had issued an outraged denial of an allegation that had the potential for a major political blowup. The object of the Begin government's wrath was a published charge that the chief of the General Security Service, Israel's equivalent of the FBI, had resigned to protest a possible obstruction of the investigation into the attempted assassination last June of three Palestinian mayors in the occupied West...
...Baltimore pizza parlor, a patrolman shoots and cripples JaWan McGee, a black youth, after seeing him reach for a shiny object in his pocket. It turns out to be a cigarette lighter. In Flint, Mich., an unarmed teen-ager fleeing a burglary is shot in the back by a policeman with a shotgun. In Chicago, three plainclothesmen severely beat a former mental patient who refuses to stop smoking in a subway car and resists arrest. Five hours later, he is dead. In Philadelphia, a 94-year-old black man who refuses to let utility company representatives into his apartment...
Roland Von Huene, the U.S. Geological Survey ma rine geologist who first spot ted the curious object, recalls: "The center hole had clearly been made by tools...