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...fogginess makes it easy for staunch conservatives to choose to place their votes elsewhere in the quite extensive array of arch-conservative Republican candidates. Few real issues significantly separate him from his GOP competitors. A January survey of 225 corporation presidents conducted by Dun's Review showed as much support for Bush as for Reagan, Connally and Anderson combined...
...Congress, he has forcefully attacked labor unions and bureaucrats while opposing aid to New York City. So staunch a champion of fiscal responsibility is Kelly that he refused in 1976 to pocket a congressional pay raise and donated the more than $1,000 to churches and the U.S. Treasury. He and his fourth wife, Judy, 28, his former secretary, whom he married in 1978, live relatively frugally, but Kelly managed to spend about $12,000 more for his office account last year than the $290,000 allowed him; he had to get a bank loan to pay back the amount...
...making such decisions in Moscow? Because Brezhnev has been such a staunch supporter of the SALT treaty that he signed with Carter in Vienna last June, there was some ominous speculation that the ailing Soviet leader might now be acting under pressure from younger and more aggressive officials, or even that the long anticipated process of changing Soviet leadership might already be 5 under way. Most Soviet experts discounted such speculation, however. Said one West German Foreign Ministry analyst: "There is no evidence to indicate that Brezhnev has lost 8 control in Moscow." A Western expert in Moscow said: "Remember...
...Mugabe, backed by the far more numerous Shona, sees a chance of winning outright a parliamentary majority and is reluctant to commit himself to any power-sharing scheme. In fact some observers believe this very issue caused a recent falling out between Mugabe and Tongogara, who had been a staunch advocate of guerrilla unity. The British sponsors of the settlement could only hope that such rivalries would not frustrate the prevailing desire of a long-suffering people. Said Dr. Edward Chitate, a black physician near the farming town of Gatooma: "The people don't give a damn which party...
Dubbed the Queen of Death Row by one appreciative convict, Morris, 49, a mother of four and a staunch opponent of capital punishment, is death penalty coordinator for the Georgia affiliate of the A.C.L.U. She normally does not start hunting for lawyers until after the defendant has been convicted and his automatic appeal has gone to the state supreme court. Once that appeal has been heard, the state no longer has an obligation to provide a lawyer, leaving most of the condemned on their own if they wish to seek post-conviction remedies in state and federal courts; most lack...