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Ford and Carter avoid clash at Al Smith dinner
Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford plan separate appearances at New York City's Al Smith dinner. Ford arrives 7 adds 8 30 pm. Carter comes at 9 stays about an hour. Both avoid meeting as campaigns for Friday Williamsburg debate plus Mondale and Dole tour. Ford declines pardons for Nixon aides and says no contact with Nixon on Watergate probe.
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Associated Press
Jimmy Carter
Ford
al Smith
New York City
Aed
Carter
New York
Williamsburg
Walter Mondale
Bob Dole
White House
Richard M. Nixon
Atty
John W. Mitchell
Nixon
H.R. Haldeman
John Ehrlichman