Show Jack Anderson FIX lea® emos Pledge Smooth Meet Standard-Examin- by Wo hi Monday August er 11 1980 5A 1 NEW YORK — Jimmy Carter’s minions have done everything they can to make sure that the Democratic National Convention will be as smooth and sweet as the Republican love feast was last month Granted the Carter people’s hopes for a friction-fre- e coronation are less than realistic But on the other hand the president’s political pushers have been operating with White House clout and a singleminded dedication They have left nothing to chance down to the smal- lest detail Anyone who expects the Democratic convention to be a tumultuous donnybrook should consider the groundwork the Carter forces laid almost as soon as they moved into the White House Starting with Day One the president’s people have been aiming for a smooth — call it slick — 1980 convention that would see Carter renominated if not by acclamation at least by an enthusiastic majority The effort began with the 1977 Winograd Commission a party rules commission named for its chairman Michigan party chief Morley Winograd The commission ostensibly was appointed to make the nomination process more democratic in fact it gave a party incumbent an enormous advantage over any challengers The commission was loaded with Carter peos direcple and much of its tion came from White House politicos like Mark Siegel Ric Hutchinson and Pat Caddell Among the “reforms” promulgated by the commission was the compression of party primaries into 14 weeks instead of 21 — an g obvious advantage for a over who were incumbent rivals lesser known to or had less access the media The Carter people also tried to engineer a rule that would have required a candidate to get 25 percent — instead of 15 percent — of the primary vote to win any delegates in most electoral districts This would have been another advantage for an incumbent against the kind of dark horse challenger that Jimmy Carter himself was in 1976 This however was rejected by the Democratic National Committee As Siegel commented on the work of the Winograd Commission “Clearly the White House goal was to help the president as much as possible” Most significant of the commission’s achievements of course was the delegatebinding rule Carter’s man Hutchinson inof a series of troduced it onto the tail-enbreezed and it through virtually proposals undebated And the Carter camp’s control of the convention machinery will make it as certain aSv possible that the challenge to the delegatebinding rule — or any other fly in the Carter ointment — will go largely unseen and unheard by the public “We are not interested in having the president portrayed as an uncaring SOB on prime time” a Carter convention strategist told my associate Tony Capaccio What the public sees and hears on prime time will not reflect the actual percentage of voter delegate support for Carter and Kennedy Madison Square Garden will be flooded with Carter people out of all relation to the number of delegates the two contestants won in the primaries While Kennedy is entitled to 226 guest passes to 324 for Carter the White House has an additional 100 passes the Carter Cabinet 26 more and party chairman John White another behind-the-scene- headline-commandin- d 1337 A GOP EXAMPLE: The Democrats don’t stand a chance of matching the Republicans in convention harmony they’ll also find it tough to equal their rivals in convention security d Detroit Thanks largely to the Police Department the GOP convention had as little trouble from outsiders as from its own orderly delegates The most exciting unscheduled event was the accidental tripping of two smoke alarms and the sniffing out of a couple of hunting rifles left in a hockey trainer’s locker Outside the super-secur- e convention hall area the worst that happened was a drunk lurching into a downtown hotel and threatening to kill the highest-rankin- g Republican in the place He was quickly relieved of his gun which turned out to be a toy well-traine- Remember When 20 300-pou- I O © iMO United Fmtm Syndicate Inc Washington Post Muskie said such a policy change has important implications for overall foreign policy and that he should have been consulted The Defense Department said Secretary Harold Brown called Muskie to explain that State Department representatives were involved in the policy discussions last year before Muskie succeeded Vance Defense officials also said Muskie was informed of the change Tuesday at a luncheon meeting with Brown and presidential adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski opes Center n New Smaller Car Ford's Last week Chrysler Corp began WAYNE Mich (AP) — Ford Motor Co is about to see whether it producing its new line of front-whe— also small ” drive can regain part of the US market — on which the and the from imports with front-wheis automaker No3 staking its fuintroduction of its small el “K-cars- fuel-efficie- nt fuel-efficie- nt el drive model Escort The No automaker has spent $3 billion to develop the vehicle called a “world car” because it will be sold abroad as well as in the United States The first Escorts were to roll off an assembly line here today g imCompetition from declina ports have brought Ford ing share of the US market along losses of $468 with company-wid- e e April-Junmillion for the period this year Ford’s share of domestic sales slipped from 236 percent five years ago to 174 percent this year “We think the car will be a huge success” said David Eisenberg analyst with Sanford C Bernstein & Co of New York “It is just what the doctor ordered” 12 fuel-savin- 10-YEAR-O- ture Escort terpart of its — and its Mercury counLynx — replaces the Pinto-Bobc- at a steady seller during most history The Pinto which has suffered from publicity over charges that some fuel tanks exploded in crashes has been phased cut The last Pinto rolled off an assembly line Friday in St Thomas Ontario The Wayne plant in suburban Detroit is the “control” plant for Escort production A crew of 287 engineers on is attempting to ensure that all bugs are worked out before a second assembly line begins production Sept 2 in Metuchen NJ The European model of Escort already is being produced in West Germany 10-ye- ar BITTEN LD Shark Alert Dampens M Carolina Swimmers WILMINGTON NC (AP) — A shark alert was in effect along North Carolina’s southeast coast today after a weekend of cautious play by swimmers — many of them defying a ban on swimming — ended with a girl being bitten on the leg The alert covered a stretch of the Atlantic shoreline from north of Morehead City to the South Carolina line and affected all of the beaches on the state’s southern coast A ban on public swimming was imposed at Emerald Isle east of Morehead City on Saturday and Sunday morning after 17 sharks were reported along the coast That ban was lifted Sunday but swimmers had ignored it throughout the weekend No such ban was in effect at Ocean Isle 35 miles south of Wil 150-mi- le mington when Susan Waters of Greensboro was bitten by a shark that came up behind her as she played in shallow water The girl was pulled from the water by her brother and was taken to a hospital in Supply She later was transferred to a Wilmington hospital where she was reported in satisfactory condition after surgery Ocean Isle and Brunswick County authorities issued an alert to other swimmers and fishermen along the county’s coast late Sunday warning them of the presence of sharks High concentrations of sharks were first sighted Friday and Frank Schwartz scientist at the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences said such numbers of sharks come so close to shore only “once in a blue moon” Found Kidnapped Child —A boy who SYLVANIA Ga (AP) was abducted at gunpoint was found naked and dirty four days later in an abandoned church 12 miles from his home authorities say Fred Lee Mobley III was found sitting in an overstuffed chair Sunday police said Aside from some bites and scratches he appeared to be 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