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Possibly the most important development of the fortnight was unheralded decision of John Anderson not to run on National Unity Party ticket this year. That, says Charles Manatt, Democratic National Chairman, could mean as many as four million additional Democratic votes. Four of every five voters who would have supported Anderson, says Manatt, “would have come from our [Democratic] ranks.” . . . Washington Post political columnist David Broder says Anderson’s exit now frees Mondale to go after the Anderson vote—“the relatively young (thirty to forty), relatively affluent college graduates in professional or managerial jobs, living on the East or West Coast and classifying themselves either as liberal Democrats or as moderate-liberal independents”—i.e., by taking as running-mate a Gary Hart type, or Gary Hart himself. . . . Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta, who has not given his support to Jesse Jackson, predicts flat out that Mondale will tap Hart for the job. . . . Which is why party elders Robert Strauss (former DNC) and former Sen. George McGovern took to the air last week (Meet the Press) to urge Hart to get off his kill-Mondale kick in the interest of party unity. . . . On the other hand, there’s a boomlet for a Southern running-mate, namely Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, who campaigned vigorously for and with Mondale in Texas. . . . Sen. Fritz Hollings, a pro in these matters, has warned that Mondale must win in the South and Southwest to have any hope of unseating Reagan, and that to do so he must run with a Southern moderate. . . . Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, incidentally, says Hollings was the only “genuine person” among the party’s eight early contenders.

Any Chinese who wanted to tune in got Ronald Reagan’s speeches uncensored, courtesy of Ken Tomlinson’s Voice of America. They were rebroadcast in both Chinese and English, with Reagan’s warnings against Soviet aggression and his praise of God and democracy restored. The Chinese, unlike the Soviets, do not jam VOA. … In noting thirtieth anniversary of General Vo Nguyen Giap’s victory over the French at Dienbienphu, French newspaper stories pointed out that only ten thousand of the forty thousand French troops captured in the Indochina war were ever returned to France. … In England, a poll in the liberal Observer indicates Britons perceive Margaret Thatcher as the toughest prime minister since Winston Churchill. Poll also finds the majority feel she is doing a good job, while still finding her too right-wing for their taste.

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Possibly the most important development of the fortnight was unheralded decision of John Anderson not to run on National Unity Party ticket this year. That, says Charles Manatt, Democratic National Chairman, could mean as many as four million additional Democratic votes. Four of every five voters who would have supported Anderson, says Manatt, “would have come from our [Democratic] ranks.” . . . Washington Post political columnist David Broder says Anderson’s exit now frees Mondale to go after the Anderson vote—“the relatively young (thirty to forty), relatively affluent college graduates in professional or managerial jobs, living on the East or West Coast and classifying themselves either as liberal Democrats or as moderate-liberal independents”—i.e., by taking as running-mate a Gary Hart type, or Gary Hart himself. . . . Mayor Andrew Young of Atlanta, who has not given his support to Jesse Jackson, predicts flat out that Mondale will tap Hart for the job. . . . Which is why party elders Robert Strauss (former DNC) and former Sen. George McGovern took to the air last week (Meet the Press) to urge Hart to get off his kill-Mondale kick in the interest of party unity. . . . On the other hand, there’s a boomlet for a Southern running-mate, namely Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, who campaigned vigorously for and with Mondale in Texas. . . . Sen. Fritz Hollings, a pro in these matters, has warned that Mondale must win in the South and Southwest to have any hope of unseating Reagan, and that to do so he must run with a Southern moderate. . . . Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy, incidentally, says Hollings was the only “genuine person” among the party’s eight early contenders.

Any Chinese who wanted to tune in got Ronald Reagan’s speeches uncensored, courtesy of Ken Tomlinson’s Voice of America. They were rebroadcast in both Chinese and English, with Reagan’s warnings against Soviet aggression and his praise of God and democracy restored. The Chinese, unlike the Soviets, do not jam VOA. … In noting thirtieth anniversary of General Vo Nguyen Giap’s victory over the French at Dienbienphu, French newspaper stories pointed out that only ten thousand of the forty thousand French troops captured in the Indochina war were ever returned to France. … In England, a poll in the liberal Observer indicates Britons perceive Margaret Thatcher as the toughest prime minister since Winston Churchill. Poll also finds the majority feel she is doing a good job, while still finding her too right-wing for their taste.