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Several other Republicans are interested in the job but are probably too closely tied to one wing of the party or another. They include outgoing Washington Governor Daniel Evans and Wisconsin G.O.P. Committeeman Ody Fish, who both supported Ford, and Utah Republican State Chairman Dick Richards, an early Reagan backer. Among the more remote possibilities for the job is Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. "Rummy" is one of the very few Ford Cabinet members who openly talks of a future in elective politics (see box page 24). But at 44, with scant savings and three children in school...
...having been first incarcerated at the age of 14. In a society where convicts receive little rehabilitative training, and ex-convicts receive no consideration from potential employers, Gilmore has had no alternative but to follow his life of crime to its seemingly inevitable and unpleasant conclusion. He came to Utah on parole last April, after serving 12 years in an Oregon prison for assault and robbery convictions. In July he was arrested and charged with killing two young men during robberies committed on successive evenings. As punishment for the first of these two murders, Gilmore has asked...
...UTAH GOVERNOR Calvin Rampton not intervened last week, Gary Gilmore would have been executed this past Monday, the first person put to death in the United States since 1967. The Utah Supreme Court had already approved the death sentence in a 4-1 decision last Wednesday, and Utah state prison warden Samuel Smith had begun to accept the names of volunteers for a five-man firing squad. Rampton, however, decided to delay the execution pending a parole board review...
...self-destruction. When he was sentenced to death on November 1 for the first-degree murder of a 24-year-old hotel clerk, Gilmore declared that he wished to be executed and would not appeal the case. When his court-appointed attorneys gained a stay of execution from the Utah Supreme Court, Gilmore obtained a new attorney and asked permission to appear at a re-hearing to vacate the stay. Appearing before the court last Wednesday, Gilmore said coolly, "I believe I have been given a fair trial, and I'm willing to accept it with dignity, like...
...elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single plank -no taxes. Democratic incumbents were re-elected in Arkansas, Montana and North Dakota, while new candidates won in Missouri, Rhode Island, Utah, Washington and West Virginia. A fresh face also won in North Carolina, where James Hunt, a New South Democrat with an awesome organization, overwhelmed his G.O.P. opponent by a nearly 2-to-l margin. Among the other intriguing victors...