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#. v + . UDiversity of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. VOL. LXVII. NO. 63 THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2. 1976 r i WF^v*m SSSSf i jsss By Betsy White KANSAS CITY?At the outset of the Republican Convention the delegates were divided, but as the week wore on the division grew deeper and more bitter as the delegates sided on issue after issue against each other. President Ford and Ronald Reagan, with nine months of fierce campaigning behind them, had managed to collect an almost equal amount of delegates. So acuuus wub me spin in me Republican Party that Ford was close to becoming the first incumbent President to be denied his party's nomination since Chester Arthur lost out to James G. Blaine on the fourth hnllnt 1DCM ? " iwn ivcpuMiituii manorial Convention. I iHlBHHBBHBWfl lA#n n# ww mm m Reagan, with the help of his imaginative campaign manager John Sears, made it impossible for Ford to sit back and let his incumbency insure him of the nomination. Ci>a ro nwuMul A?1 * * " uvu.o pivTcu iu uc on uicanwiea iioucam with plans to keep Ford sweating and Reagan in and out of trouble. Further complicating the delegate division was Sen. James Buckley's announcement to allow his name to hp nlA^wi in nomination in order that Ford or Reagan would not win on the first ballot. This, Buckley felt would help free delegates so that on the second ballot arrnrHino (n ruino ? ?..0 .v |>ui vj i u?;o uic ucivgumi could vote for whomever they wanted. Buckley, however, at the last minute said he would not accept a draft into the contest, thus helping Ford regain some of his Mpil f?f omnor ^** gw composure. At the sound of the opening gavel, the battle for delegates had only just begun. Reagan backers had managed to question party rules and platforms in order to exagerate them into ma tar issues in hm?s of swaying more delegates to their side. Their first rules fight was on whether delegates were bound by state party rules A. ? ? to voce ai uie convention tor whom they'd voted for in the primaries. Reaganites insisted the delegates should be free to vote for whomever they wanted. At first this was a blow to the Ford forces. If the rule had been changed, 939 delegates would have been free of their commitments and could vote for anvnn*. The rules change might have proved Sec CONVKNTION, Pages 4 A 5 iMALat Welcome hnt* It inside I Hie interviews are completed, and the results have been tabulated In the faculty opinion survey See page IB The firing of three Campus Bookstore employes has raised a number of questions See pages 8A and I6B Recent cult* in "real" income have caused many faculty members to consider unionization See page 10A I? I