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What the Congo could be has been obvious since British explorer Lieut. Verney Cameron captivated Belgium's King Leopold in 1876 with tales of riches. The soil is fertile. There are giant stretches of tropical wood, and an estimated $58 billion of mineral wealth is in the ground...
...will not be so much a convocation as a coronation. It's likely to be as lively as an Electronic Data Systems sales conference. Forget the balloons and funny hats. Backers of Dick Lamm fear that even placards and signs might be banned. The party's national coordinator, Russell Verney, says the convention will play host to only about 1,500 valid Reform Party delegates and is not for hoopla but for decision making. "The enthusiastic part," he says, will be a week later in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where the winner of the party's nomination will be formally declared...
...Perot organization is mainly a one-man band. Perot's cabinet isn't big enough to fill a kitchen. Russell Verney is the all-around organizer, spinmeister, and aide-de-camp. A former air-traffic controller who ran for Congress as a Democrat in New Hampshire, he has brought some order to the Perot operation where others have failed. Clay Mulford, Perot's son-in-law, a big-time corporate lawyer, is the resident expert on arcane election and finance issues. Perot has a part-time pollster in Gordon Black, who provides memos on message and tactics but typically gets...
...Momentum is on our side. We are now over 50,000, and we are surging ahead rapidly," said Russ Verney, executive director of the group. "Fifty thousand is a hard and fast figure. We photocopied those before turning them in. We believe there are thousands of other voters who sent their registrations directly to the state...
...Reform Party has registered just 10,217 of the 89,007 voters it needs to win a place on California's 1996 presidential ballot. But Perot's United We Stand America disputes the figure. "We are now over 50,000, and we are surging ahead rapidly," executive director Russ Verney told the Associated Press. "Fifty thousand is a hard and fast figure. We photocopied those before turning them in.." Meanwhile, the state says, the science-oriented Natural Law Party is closest to qualifying, with 69,438 registered voters...