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...leader of the city's Jewish community. What those radars are picking up, of course, is the orbiting presidential candidacy of Jimmy Carter. How America's Jews are going to respond to him has been of concern for Carter campaign strategists. They are troubled by the specter of 1972, when Jews-like other traditional Democrats-deserted Democratic Presidential Nominee George McGovern in droves. Instead of polling over 80% of the Jewish vote, as John Kennedy (1960) and Hubert Humphrey (1968) did, and 90%, as Lyndon Johnson (1964) did, McGovern cornered only around...
That feat may have been the most important of Rosovsky's term so far--by the spring of '73 the Faculty deficit had expanded so greatly that the terrifying (for University administrators) specter of paying off bills through liquidation of endowment was a real possibility. Taken to an extreme conclusion, the situation meant the end of the Faculty...
...third member of the Christian Democratic team, feisty former Premier Amintore Fanfani, 68, seldom makes such admissions. Fanfani's assignment is to raise the specter of fear over a Communist approach to power. At Grosseto and again at Benevento, he intimated that the party should have been outlawed: "Communism has always taken advantage of liberty to crush it once power is achieved-and it might have been better if we had not allowed them to take that road." In that way, the Christian Democrats hope to pick up votes from supporters of such smaller parties as the Liberals...
...confusing factor is that Carter is again being haunted by the specter of Humphrey. The Minnesota Senator showed up at a fund-raising dinner last week for, not surprisingly, Congressman Wayne L. Hays, who strongly backs him. A giant banner proclaimed: H.H. HUMPHREY OUR NEXT PRESIDENT. Hays, a conservative, announced that he will spend $25,000 in funds raised in a last-minute drive. He will campaign for Humphrey in six districts where the Congressman heads favorite-son slates of delegates. If elected, they would support Humphrey at the convention...
...poisoned atmosphere is even reviving the specter of union violence. Fearing attack, Miller recently gave up his Washington home to seclude himself in an apartment in Alexandria, Va. When traveling into opposition strongholds, he says he packs a Smith & Wesson .38 automatic under his left shoulder. Trbovich says he was clubbed over the head recently while entering the Burlington Hotel in Washington; in Hazleton last month, he stayed behind a bolted door in an isolated wing of a motel. The power struggle will probably not be resolved until the next U.M.W. presidential election in December 1977-unless it is settled...