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Ford also scored political points as he directed U.N. Ambassador William Scranton to cast a U.N. veto of Viet Nam's attempts to join the United Nations, mainly because it has failed to supply complete information on U.S. servicemen still missing in Southeast Asia. (Carter said he wholeheartedly favored the veto on the same grounds.) Apparently because of the likely veto, the Security Council postponed action on Viet Nam until after the U.S. election...
...worst encounter occurred in Scranton, Pa., when Carter stepped out of his car expecting to greet a friendly crowd. Instead, he was suddenly swallowed up in a stormy sea of right to lifers fiercely chanting: "Life! Life! Life!" Carter's startled Secret Service contingent cut a path to the hotel door and hustled the candidate inside...
...strong appeal to the farm-belt of the Midwest and Plains states. His background as Republican National Committee Chairman from 1971 to 1973, added Ford, has given Dole an extraordinarily wide acquaintance with Republicans in all states. And he has been an able Congressman and Senator. U.N. Ambassador William Scranton added another reason: "He is an excellent campaigner of the type we need. The President is not the attacker type, but Bob can do that kind of campaigning." He also can be abrasive and slashing to opponents, though his sense of humor alleviates some of the sting. Cracks Minnesota Republican...
Vice President Rockefeller and U.N. Ambassador William Scranton urged the Ford campaign advisers to oppose the amendment. "Nelson and I both thought it was very bad, an attack on the Nixon-Ford-Kissinger foreign policy," Scranton said. In a conference in the sky suite, Burch, Tower, Senators Hugh Scott and Roman Hruska tried to still the urge for more combat. They reasoned that Ford had just won the big test, he might well lose a second, there was no need to dilute the night's good work. Nearly alone, Rocky sought some softening language. The Reaganites were in no mood...
...more names than could really be under consideration. Among those frequently mentioned were: Governors Robert Ray of Iowa, Daniel Evans of Washington and Christopher Bond of Missouri, Senator Howard Baker of Tennessee, Congressman John Anderson of Illinois, Treasury Secretary William Simon, former Treasury Secretary Connally and U.N. Ambassador William Scranton...