What do the Republican Party and Detroit have in common? "The tendency on the part of some people to write them off as dead," Michigan Governor William Milliken said to the Republican National Committee in Washington. But, in fact, Milliken contended, both party and city are reviving.
Preceded last fall by city officials' persistent and dramatic campaign extolling Detroit's convention facilities, the Republican Governor's pitch proved persuasive. Last week the G.O.P. committee voted, 95 to 52, to hold its July 1980 national convention in Detroit, despite the sniping of a few Southerners who...
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