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...some effort to take California from Reagan, at least to the extent of making Reagan protect his base, thus tying up money and manpower he could use elsewhere. The Carterites believe they have a chance to take Washington and Oregon, especially if Anderson's strength declines as they predict. This could give them two states they did not win in 1976. But the Rocky Mountain and Western plains states seem to be firmly in Reagan's camp...
What will come next is unclear--a legislative majority, and a larger electoral majority, continue to back rent and condominium controls. Without strict guidelines, they reason, Cambridge--a city where dozens of people vie for every available housing opening--would be overrun by young professionals. Studies predict neighborhoods would be destroyed and the working class would disappear. But the other side argues that gentrification of the city would increase the tax base and not hurt the elderly or the poor but only "student transients...
...presidential campaign issue. The Department of Labor reported last week that the jobless in the U.S. have increased to 8.2 million, a startling jump from the 6.3 million without work in February. Now 7.8% of the American labor force sit on the sidelines of business, and Carter Administration economists predict that the rate will reach 8.5% later this year and stay there through most...
...early to predict what the second increase will be, or when it will come, although we should get it out in 1980," Stanton said. Tenant leaders in the city have said in recent months that a general increase of more than 10 per cent would be "unacceptable...
...talk among Democrats last week about whether Jimmy Carter really should be the party's presidential nominee. Carter was far behind Ronald Reagan in the presidential sweepstakes before last week's stream of embarrassments. Now Mervin Field, an influential California pollster, has gone so far as to predict that the next nationwide surveys may show the President running an astonishing third, behind both Reagan and Independent John Anderson. Said Field: "The question facing the Democratic delegates as they go to the convention is whether they want to walk the plank with Jimmy Carter...