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...SHOWDOWN IN KANSAS CITY...
While the G.O.P. was preparing for its Kansas City showdown, Carter's campaign had all the characteristics of a new play being tried out on the road before its Broadway opening. The reviews were generally good but not overwhelming. In swings to Manchester, N.H., Washington, B.C., Atlanta, and Charleston, W. Va., the nominee shored up his liberal credentials (actually, he prefers to call them populist), attacked the Republicans as corrupt, incompetent and insensitive, and referred to the "Nixon-Ford Administration." He evoked applause from an American Bar Association audience when he vowed "to take a new broom to Washington...
...explained his fed-up feelings, "After what I've been through, I'd stay with Reagan even if the heavens opened up and a voice from the sky told me I was wrong." Plainly, many of the Ford delegates were digging in too as the Kansas City showdown neared...
Fearful that Smith's stubbornness will result in a violent showdown with the overwhelming black majority, U.S. and British diplomats are working on a plan to purchase, in effect, white acceptance of an early peaceful transition to black rule. Still in the drafting stage, the scheme might seek to commit Britain, other members of the Common Market, the U.S. and states neighboring on Rhodesia legally, financially and even militarily to guarantee a bloodless solution to the Rhodesian problem. Rhodesia's whites and black tribal minorities might be offered a "safety net" composed of a floor price for their...
Butz and others have been pressing to plow under the peanut program. To head off that eventuality, Representative Dawson Mathis of Georgia has recently introduced a compromise bill that would reduce acreage allotments by 22.5% and pare support prices slightly. The showdown could come next year when Congress votes on a new general agriculture bill. If the nation's best-known peanut farmer-who has indicated that he favors lower price supports -is then occupying the White House, it will be interesting to see what recommendations come from the Oval Office...