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...room is entitled to at least one delegate to the county convention, the next step in the sequence. Backers of a candidate who gets less than 15% are asked to transfer their support to another candidate or "uncommitted." As for the Republicans, they will take a straw poll at the caucuses as part of their process for selecting delegates for the next round. What is more, the delegates in sturdily independent Iowa can change their allegiances right up to the time that the final deciding vote is cast at the National Convention...
Encouraging signs from the field could not obscure the contentious political issues that will sorely test the cease-fire during the coming electoral campaign. No fewer than eleven African parties have registered for the February poll, and incidents of intimidation were already appearing in the townships: four supporters of Bishop Muzorewa, who will be the Front's mam rival, were ordered jailed for four years each last week for political violence, and eight others were sentenced to fines and suspended prison terms. In another apparent act of pre-election terrorism, the wife of a top Mugabe party official, James...
These are two of the conclusions from a survey of U.S. attitudes about the Iran crisis, conducted for TIME by the opinion research firm Yankelovich, Skelly and White, Inc. The telephone poll of 1,041 registered voters showed that 64% would support military action if that were the only way to get the hostages out unharmed; 63% would back a show of force if the hostages had been hurt or killed by their captors. Yet a markedly smaller number (39%) said they favored military action if the embassy prisoners were merely put on trial. Three-fourths of the voters polled...
...poll documented the widespread view that Americans have united strongly behind the President in his efforts to free the hostages. In the survey, 66% rated Carter's handling of the crisis as "just right," while 27% felt that he had been "too soft," and only 1% thought he had been "too hard." The breakdown of support by party affiliation: 66% of Democrats, 58% of Republicans...
There was also a close correlation in the poll between what Carter has done and what Americans favor. Two-thirds of those polled agreed that permitting the Shah to enter the U.S. for medical treatment was the right thing to do. Only 25% were opposed. But in about the same numbers-61 % to 26%-voters rejected the idea of offering the Shah permanent asylum. Although the front-running G.O.P. presidential candidate, Ronald Reagan, urged that the Shah should be given asylum, Republicans (52%) as well as Democrats (64%) opposed that course. What if turning over the Shah to the Iranians...