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...decision was final. The first to be told of the choice?after Dole ?was Reagan. Ford began zeroing in on Dole the week before the convention, but the only Administration insider who had a sense of how he was narrowing the field was Chief of Staff Cheney, his sole confidant on the decision. The tabulations of the partywide popularity contest showed a cluster of obvious names near the top?Connally, Reagan, Baker, Richardson, Rockefeller?but no overwhelming standout whom the President could reject only at the risk of antagonizing the party...
...screen. At least that's the hope of moviemakers who are now trying to turn ballet stars into box office draws at the cinema. In Spain, Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 38, has stepped into the role of legendary screen lover in Ken Russell's film Valentino. His sole dancing assignment in the film: a 1920s tango. At the same time in New York, fellow Kirov Defector Mikhail Baryshnikov has tried a few lines of his own in The Turning Point, a ballet movie featuring Misha, 28, and Leslie Browne, 19, as a pair of dancer-lovers. For Browne...
...state of Ohio of a total of $65,000. It was only one of several cases to emerge in a mushrooming scandal involving Ohio's workmen's compensation system, which, with assets of $1.5 billion, is the largest such program in which the state is the sole insurer. More than 1,000 suspect claims and scores of bogus companies are currently under scrutiny. The total cost of Ohio's Watergate, as a state investigator called it, to employers that support the workmen's comp system could reach into the millions...
...French restaurant Sans Souci. The rare public lunch proved to be a huge headache for the Secret Service but a field day for reporters (four of them feasted at a nearby table). Ford downed two martinis and a chefs salad; his wife sipped gin-and-tonics and ate Dover sole. The tab came to $25.36, and Betty Ford picked...
...Almost all of them carefully avoided mentioning the embarrassing Ugandan "President for Life" in their speeches. Yet Amin kept himself in the spotlight by his verbal tussles with Kenya. His posture as injured party in the Entebbe drama was also weakened by the fate of Dora Bloch, 75, the sole hostage the Israelis left behind in Uganda (she was in a Kampala hospital at the time of the rescue). London asserts that Mrs. Bloch, who held dual Israeli and British citizenship, has been killed. According to reports from Uganda, she suffocated when security police gagged her to stifle screams...