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...back loading." Unfortunately for Hart, this year's primary season is front loaded. During a five-day period in mid-March, 29% all Democratic delegates will be chosen in six primaries and 14 caucuses. In only a few of the states to be contested that week-Wyoming, Oklahoma, Washington-is Hart in a position seriously to challenge Mondale. In several big primaries, such as in Illinois (March 20), Hart-committed candidates are running for fewer than half the state's convention seats. His hopes depend further on Glenn's and Jackson's doing well, at Mondale...
...House side, such Democrats as Oklahoma's Jim Jones, chairman of the Budget Committee, and Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski of Illinois are eager to attack the deficit. Rostenkowski said that his committee would begin work this week on a $51.2 billion revenue-raising bill...
...cream are sold in look-alike outlets from Hawaii to Maine. Until recently, one area of business was restrained from going this route: banking. While Canada has just eleven banks and Britain has about 300, the U.S. has some 15,000. Nebraska alone has 283 different banks, Oklahoma 256 and Colorado 126. Says Walter Wriston, chairman of New York's Citicorp: "When the pioneers got off the wagon train going west, they set up a general store, a saloon and a bank." The general store and the saloon may be gone, but the bank probably remains, protected by state...
...lacked the force and polish of the Great Communicator's speech and offered little in the way of alternative programs. It argued that the poor and disadvantaged have not shared in the economic recovery, and warned that high deficits are a grave long-term threat. The Republicans, contended Oklahoma Senator David Boren, are "saying live for today and don't worry about tomorrow...
...week when it was disclosed that the U.S. had gone to court to limit the publication of a federal district judge's opinion that officials claimed "slandered" three Government prosecutors. What was even more surprising was that a panel of the Tenth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Oklahoma had granted a temporary injunction. The appeals court rescinded its order last Tuesday, but constitutional experts were still shocked that the court had agreed, however briefly, to the prior restraint. "For 21 days there was a censorship order outstanding against an absolutely trivial publication," said First Amendment Attorney James Goodale...