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...Northeast, Carter leads 47 to 39. In the West, where Carter failed to carry a single state against Gerald Ford in 1976 and where Kennedy has been strong, Carter is ahead 49 to 35. At the same time, Jerry Brown has virtually been pushed off the board as a serious presidential candidate. Carter leads him 71 to 16 nation wide...
Kennedy has lost popularity partly because his image as a strong leader has softened as he has mumbled and fumbled on television and on the hustings. He suffered a serious, self-inflicted wound from his outspoken criticism of the Shah of Iran while the Americans remained captive in Tehran. A whopping 74% disapproved of Kennedy's remarks being made at that time. Only 17% approved...
...problem worse. She got into a public fight with Illinois Governor James Thompson over whether the state or the city had the ultimate responsibility of financing the schools. Says Jerome Van Gorkom, who was appointed by Byrne to head an oversight committee for the schools: "The situation is not serious; it is desperate...
...many untrained first-time workers into the labor force, and the decline of research and development, in part because managers have concluded that inflation makes the payoff too distant, too uncertain. Turgid productivity, which aggravated inflation and contributed to the debauch of the dollar in world markets, is as serious as any problem that the nation faces as it enters the 1980s...
Tribal enmity,* along with ideological disputes between the left-leaning Mugabe and the more pragmatic Nkomo, could pose a serious threat to the cease-fire plan. The two groups considered joining their forces under a single command and mounting a unified campaign in the forthcoming elections. Nevertheless, many guerrillas have been killed in intramural gun fights between the rival factions. Says James Chikerema, a former guerrilla leader: "The security forces sit on tops of hills and wait for ZIPRA and ZANLA to knock each other to pieces. Then they move in and kill." In November ZIPRA and ZANLA units clashed...