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...Jackson, the new relationship would entail an end to runoff elections. He also wants the few white Democrats who represent predominantly black congressional districts to give up their seats in favor of black candidates. With Mondale trailing so badly, there has been little point in blacks' asserting their demands aggressively. But after next Tuesday, Jackson's own agenda, as well as the hopes and resentments he has aroused within the party, could bubble forth again. "There's some lack of trust and some anxiety" between him and party leaders, he admits. "I'll have something...
...recent deluge is only the latest crisis in the Great Salt Lake's erratic history. Lying in the Great Basin between the Rockies and Sierra Nevadas, the lake collects runoff from the nearby Wasatch Range. Its only outlet is through evaporation, so the lake becomes 2 million tons richer each year in mountain minerals that have no means of escape. Some parts of the lake can be eight times saltier than the ocean. Perhaps even more remarkable, the Great Salt Lake generates its own weather system, known as the dreaded lake effect (DLE). During early spring, when a storm...
...nobody or no concrete commitment." The Mondale forces easily defeated Jackson planks calling for the U.S. to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons (2,216 to 1,406); a real decrease in defense spending rather than a modest rise (2,592 to 1,128); and the elimination of runoff primaries when no candidate receives a majority in the first vote (2,501 to 1,253). The intensity of black feeling over the dual-primary issue was demonstrated in almost brutal fashion when Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young spoke against the Jackson plank. Other black delegates booed and shouted throughout Young...
...campaign strategy. Instead, Mondale met with Jackson only once, in a tense session that the former Vice President stressed was "not a negotiation." Mondale has ignored Jackson's demands to include minority planks in the Democratic platform that would call for huge defense cuts and the abolition of runoff primary elections, which Jackson charges discriminate against Southern Blacks. Last week, before announcing Ferraro as his choice for the No. 2 spot, Mondale specifically read Jackson out of the running "because we have too many differences that I think are basic...
...runoff primaries in Southern states...