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...idea that has as much risk as logic: nominating a woman to run for Vice President. House Speaker Tip O'Neill is behind it. So are Democratic Governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Richard Celeste of Ohio. The National Organization for Women and the National Women's Political Caucus are scrambling to line up organized support for a woman Vice President. In recent weeks, Walter Mondale and Gary Hart have been asked at every stop whether they would run with a woman; Jesse Jackson already has promised to choose a woman in the unlikely event he is nominated...
...final seven primaries and one caucus will choose 571 of these delegates. In five of the remaining contests, Mondale is the underdog. He has virtually given up on Oregon (43 delegates, May 15), where the Yumpie vote is strong, and faces an uphill struggle in Nebraska (24 delegates, May 15), where popular Governor Bob Kerrey is stumping for Hart. (Last week Kerrey's sometime girlfriend, Actress Debra Winger, campaigned with Hart in Ohio.) Hart also has a slight edge in Idaho (18 delegates, May 24) and South Dakota (15 delegates, June...
...primary, but blacks constitute two-thirds of the capital's electorate, vs. only about a quarter of Louisiana's. Jackson evidently benefited from apathy and confusion among white Louisiana Democrats. Governor Edwin Edwards, miffed because a federal court ordered Louisiana to hold a primary rather than a caucus, urged a boycott of the polls; so many whites heeded his advice that the total turnout was only about 14% of those eligible...
...brief discussion with Kee MacFarlane, an expert on the sexual abuse of children, who is counseling some of the 125 children who were molested at the McMartin School, a day-care center in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Hawkins, a member of an informal group called the Senate Children's Caucus, thought her disclosure would help parents accept their children's stories of sexual abuse. Said she: "It's bothered me all this time that 'nice old man' got off and went on abusing children...
...proposal of a $10-per-bbl. fee on imported oil. Furthermore, Hart has inherited many of John Glenn's deep-pocketed donors. Oil Baron James Calaway, who helped raise $1 million for Glenn, raised $125,000 for Hart in a single evening this month. In the Texas caucuses, however, organization and party loyalty count for more than money. Hart's Yumpies (young upwardly mobile professionals) are likely to feel there are more enticing things to do on a Saturday night than go to a caucus in a sweaty meeting hall...