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...last chapter to the long, dreary pre-convention campaign. The face that started in the snows preceding the Iowa precinct caucuses of Jan. 21 had drawn a crowded field of candidates and in the early going, some surprising turnouts by the voters. But the voters proved remarkably hard to predict. On the Democratic side, Ted Kennedy won the blue-collar and the black vote by a heavy margin in Philadelphia but lost both on April 22 in Pittsburgh, on the opposite side of Pennsylvania. In New York, voters disenchanted with Carter gave a victory to Kennedy, while in Wisconsin they...
Carter hears the message to be more cautious and restrained. "Anything that produces significant change will be met with resistance," insisted the President. "Change is risky. Its outcome is impossible to predict. Substantial forces are always marshaled on both sides. Had the Panama Canal Treaty been voted down, that would have been a major blow. It was risky. We had to take a risk going against the Moscow Olympics...
...surface, however, officials continue stoically to predict success. O'Brien insists that Harvard is not developing an alternate electricity-generating plan, one that is not based on installing the diesel engines. Rising oil prices, he says, will eventually help oil-efficient MATEP pay for itself faster. Joe B. Wyatt, vice president for administration, says the power plant's rising costs are similar to problems with the Seabrook and Pilgrim II nuclear power plants. "The initial estimate has practically no bearing on the costs because of the environmental questions," he says, but adds that he is optimistic the project will succeed...
...when Congress passes the president's proposal, anti-registration activists predict mass protests on college campuses and elsewhere. David Landau '72, a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and deputy director of the National Coalition Against Registration and the Draft, a group of about 50 religious, peace and student organizations committed to fighting the president's plan, says that the present belies the future. "There's a lot of brooding underneath the surface," Landau says...
...Anderson faces enormous skepticism about the success of his efforts as a presidential candidate. Asked who will actually be the next President, 52% say they expect Carter to be reelected, while only 30% predict a Reagan victory. Only 1% say Anderson will win. Asked for their reaction to the statement "You don't take Anderson's campaign too seriously, and he doesn't stand a chance of being elected," 59% say they agree. At the same time, only 23% of his supporters say they are strongly committed to him. No less than 55% continue to express unhappiness...