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Under fire, Mondale orders some PAC money returned...
...noisy debate over the delegate committees and their PAC money at times threatened to submerge the substantive issues of the campaign. The amount of money in dispute is probably no more than $500,000; Mondale is expected to spend a total of $24.2 million before the convention. But more than technicalities were involved. The controversy undercut the pledge Mondale made early in his candidacy that he would not accept PAC contributions and raised anew questions about how beholden he is to organized labor. Mondale took the matter so seriously that when Colorado Senator Gary Hart began taunting...
...clear that the Mondale committees were far from independent operations. Most were spawned by a memo sent in January by Elaine Kamarck, a Mondale coordinator, to potential Mondale delegates offering assistance to those who wished to form local fund-raising units. Kamarck noted that while Mondale himself had called PAC contributions improper for a presidential candidate, the delegate committees "may make their own decision." Critics charge that this was an open invitation for committees to seek hefty donations from labor-union PACs. Many delegate groups did: of the contributions to committees recorded so far, more than 80% came from labor...
Hart's PAC attack formed the focus for a broader assault on Mondale that Hart's strategists hope will halt what seems to be the front runner's inexorable march. Hart won last week in Vermont (46% to 33%) and Utah (51% to 20%), but Mondale holds a 1,135-to-605 lead in delegates; 1,967 are needed for the nomination. Hart's hard-line tactics are expected to continue through the next batch of primaries and caucuses, culminating with votes in Texas and Louisiana on May 5 and Ohio, Indiana, Maryland and North Carolina...
...most dangerous potential threat to American software manufacturers, surprisingly, has not materialized. While the Japanese are making initial forays into the hardware side of personal computers in the U.S., the only major Japanese software export hits have been games like Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. Concedes Hisao Ishihara, managing director of the Japan Software Industry Association in Tokyo, which represents nearly 200 companies: "The number and variety of Japanese products are indeed behind American ones, and our industry will