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...question demanded a simple answer, but it dogged Walter Mondale all week: "Can you cite one major domestic issue in the past three or four years where you have disagreed with organized labor?" At first Mondale ducked. He protested that his endorsement by the AFL-CIO was "not a deal." When reporters pressed him he turned testy, his eyes becoming cold, his face hard, his voice clipped. Repeatedly he replied, "I'm not going to spend my time offending people who support...
Finally, realizing that his stonewalling was doing more harm than good, Mondale's aides advised their candidate to cite some differences with labor. He mentioned his opposition to the B-1 bomber, the Clinch River breeder reactor and the weakening of clean air standards. The examples were "small potatoes," conceded an AFL official. "They're not going to quiet the howling beast." The clumsy handling of the issue was a rare stumble by Mondale's smoothly efficient machine, which is being publicly tested for the first time in Iowa this Monday and New Hampshire next Tuesday...
Officials in Washington cite him as having prevented attempts by Sen Jesse Helms (D.N.C) to stop the Supreme Court of jurisdiction on civil rights issues such as busing, abortion and school prayer. The failure of the proposed Helms-Johnson Amendment, according to many observers, helped preserve the independence of the judiciary branch...
...When the group closed up shop last week, however, the specific boondoggles had been deleted and the report no longer named names. Grace contended that so many instances of congressional meddling with sound business practices had been found that it was impossible to list them all and unfair to cite only a few examples...
...overthrowing a civilian government led by Mohammed Mahgoub in 1969, Nimeiri negotiated an end to 17 years of bloody civil war in 1972. Nimeiri has remained in power since then, staging three referendums that have overwhelmingly returned him to office. Residents of the southern part of the country, however, cite numerous grievances. They complain, for example, that when the Chevron Oil Co. discovered oil in the south, the government made plans to pipe it out of the territory rather than build a refinery on the spot, which would have generated jobs in the economically depressed region. In addition, some southerners...