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...Pete V. Domenici (R-New Mex.) will likely be the first to drop out of the race if voting goes to a second ballot. The Chairman of the influential Budget Committee and a 12-year Senate veteran, Domenici is known as a staunch budget-cutter and a capable, though profoundly unexciting, legislator. He's been keeping very quiet about his candidacy for Howard Baker's post--and not too many people are talking about him either...
Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale were among those invited who forgot to R.S.V.P., but nobody seemed to miss them. Pete Swider, from Hamtramck, Mich., vowed to eliminate crime by issuing federal credit cards to all 18-to 21-year-olds. Wearing a blue velour jogging suit and a gold feather headdress, Chief Rufus Thunderberg, a self-proclaimed Indian leader from Connecticut, worried about an imminent energy crisis. His solution: emergency methane production. Instead of distributing surplus cheese to the hungry, the Administration, according to Thunderberg, should provide baked beans. William Allen Camps warned that an enemy power has been tampering...
...leaders of the United Auto Workers overwhelmingly approved the contract worked out earlier with General Motors. The contract was sent to the rank and file for ratification by Oct. 14. Despite creation of a $1 billion fund for retraining workers displaced by automation, there could be some balking. Says Pete Beltran, president of Local 645 in Van Nuys, Calif.: "The ratification vote will be much closer than people think." Autoworkers were grumbling that the annual wage hike for the next three years will be just 2.25%. Economists, though, feared that wages and benefits were still at too high a level...
...campaign billboards advertised her only as "Elise." When voters failed to respond, campaign strategists added her surname. Even though her husband has studiously stayed away from the campaign, her popularity is inexorably linked to his. Pierre du Pont, completing his second term, has an approval rating of some 90%. "Pete du Pont has turned the state around," says Rotarian John Newcomer. "And that...
Early this year, it seemed that Roger Hedgecock, 38, San Diego's dashing, telegenic liberal Republican mayor, was leading a charmed political life. A former environmental lawyer and avid surfer, Hedgecock was elected in May 1983 to complete the term of Republican Pete Wilson, who had left for the U.S. Senate. In 16 months Hedgecock formed a broad-based political coalition in a traditionally conservative city, and was considered a shoo-in for election to a full four-year term this November. But last week a county grand jury returned a 15-count felony indictment against the mayor...