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...votes in the otherwise non-binding convention to get his name on the primary ballot. That rule, upheld unanimously last week by the Supreme Judicial Court, could spell disaster for O'Neill, who is currently backed by no more than 10 percent of the delegates, selected in ward caucuses three months...
...Soviets and their clients-but that these have been somewhat obscured by indifferent execution. Critics contend that these apparent goals are really just a set of attitudes, that under Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, U.S. foreign policy has essentially become a series of scrambles to ward off disaster...
...that much will be accomplished. There are worries in Washington that the Israelis may snuff out the diminishing hopes for progress in any negotiations by continuing the process of "creeping annexation" until it becomes a fait accompli. The situation, said one U.S. official last week, "requires presidential leadership to ward off the disasters down the road. I really don't know if Ronald Reagan sees that...
...version of the LIFE cover, they are, from left to right and top to bottom, Lance Henriksen as Wally Schirra and Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard; Ed Harris as John Glenn, Charles Frank as Scott Carpenter and Scott Paulin as Deke Slayton; Dennis Quaid as Gordon Cooper and Fred Ward as Gus Grissom. Said Quaid: "I get to be a national hero for six months." Hardly up to the public relations performance of the True Originals. At their press conference, a reporter queried, "Could I ask for a show of hands of how many are confident that they will come...
...political meetings and plotting strategy for the machine. It's not as if White is handing out jobs to all his workers. Instead, It's the other way around city employees who would expect to lose their jobs if White loses an election obtain positions in the machine. The ward coordinators and precinct captains the bear of the machine all hold city jobs. And every one of them--from Lora Baldwin, an administrative assistant in the Community Development Department up to Dennis Morgan director of the budget give money to the Committee for a Better Boston, the fundraising group...