Word: units
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...current jockeying, no situation is more intriguing than that involving the 30-vote Mississippi delegation. Traditionally, Mississippi Republicans vote as a unit. Most observers expect that the unit rule will be retained and that Reagan will win the delegation, although some Ford supporters have threatened to bolt and back the President. The most influential member of the delegation, National Committeeman Clarke Reed, is being intensively courted by Ford: Reed was a guest of the President at a dinner for Queen Elizabeth in the White House Rose Garden. Reed expects the Mississippi delegation to vote for Reagan, but admits he certainly...
After intensive examinations, doctors concluded that Pat had suffered a stroke in the right parietal area of the brain. She was considered in serious but not critical condition. Although she was placed in an intensive care unit, she remained conscious and coherent. Nevertheless, she was expected to be hospitalized for at least ten days. Nixon's personal physician, Dr. John Lundgren, and Neurologist Jack M. Mosier said the stroke had been caused by a small hemorrhage or clot in the right cerebral cortex. Unless the effects of the stroke spread, Pat Nixon was expected to recover, but it remained...
Ever fearful of the kind of lightning coup with which he, as armed forces commander, ousted Milton Obote from the presidency in 1971, Amin often moves about under tight guard-usually trusted mercenaries who are themselves watched by a troop of undercover enforcers known as the Public Research Unit. Amin has survived at least eight assassination attempts, including one last month, when grenades were tossed at his car as he left Kampala's police headquarters. His driver was killed and 37 bystanders were injured but Amin was barely scratched, probably confirming his belief that "God is on my side...
...among Illinois' 13. Reagan's operatives, on the other hand, hope to chip away a few members from the overwhelmingly pro-Ford delegations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Reagan is also confident of winning all of Mississippi's 30 seats since the delegates have adopted the unit rule (whoever wins a majority, however narrow, gets all 30). Ford is pondering a last-minute trip to Mississippi. "The delegation is probably 2 to 1 for Reagan now," says G.O.P. National Committeeman Clarke Reed. "But who knows? Hard work could push it either...
...Workers of America to unionize clerical and technical workers both on the main campus and at the Medical Area. The drive, which began in 1974 in the Med Area, has met with near-complete success there, but the failure of the University to recognize the area as an appropriate unit for collective bargaining has resulted in a fiasco whose end still seems more than a year...