Word: detroiters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DETROIT TIGERS: Sparky Anderson is building a team up there in Michigan, but they're probably still a few years away. Young hitters Steve Kemp, Jason Thompson and rookie Kirk Gibson and pitchers Jack Morris and Dale Schatzeder form the nucleus of what may be the team...
...what most Republicans believe in. Anderson Campaign Manager Michael MacLeod insists that his candidate is pursuing a primary campaign strategy that will send him to the July convention "with between 800 and 900" of the 998 delegates needed to win the nomination. Once in Detroit, according to this plan, Anderson will be able to woo enough other delegates to win on the first ballot. But this scenario combines so many unlikely events, including a victory in the June 3 winner-take-all primary in Reagan's home state of California, that the strategy is not considered realistic by anyone...
...directly to the White House talking about the possible shortage of $5.8 million to this state in revenue sharing and pointing out how clearly dependent New Hampshire is on this money. Other Governors also will bring the necessary weight in Congress to stop this approach." Mayor Coleman Young of Detroit warned of a "long, hot summer" if Congress votes to chop federal programs that help cities. Said Young: "If there must be pain, let it be spread across the whole budget. Let it be felt in the Defense Department as well as the summer jobs program...
...lead to increased federal aid, minority leaders generally have been enthusiastically backing the census effort. Creek Indian Leader Steadham has been traveling for the Census Bureau through Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee to meet with groups of Indians and explain how the forms must be filled out. Coleman Young, Detroit's black mayor, is appearing in TV ads in that city to reassure his fellow citizens that they have nothing to fear from the survey...
Boston 124, Detroit...