NEWS CONFERENCE 939

heads have agreed to try to live within — not happily, of course, but
certainly after considering the financial bind the State finds itself
in — total some $11. 5 million. This $11. 5 million will probably be
increased to some extent by additional reversions from education
which can't be determined at this moment. The reason the education
picture's so difficult to project accurately is, of course, that there are
certain mandatory things in education that cannot be affected by
executive action and we have to try to find out to what extent the
educators are willing to allow us to trim these items — and this takes
a little more time. I hope to have a detailed breakdown for you by
the time I return from the Republican National Convention in
Miami. So it does look like, at this moment, at least $11. 5 million
will be trimmed — further trimmed — from the State budget for this
current year.

Questions and Answers

Q. How does that affect the general picture since the last report,
Governor?

A. Well, I think, the closest we could figure, we were looking at a
deficit of some $42 million. So this would cut it down by say $12
million for the time being. I have no further announcements.

(Republican National Convention)

Q. Governor, Newsweek Magazine carried a delegates' count, state-
by-state, and included favorite sons in nine states but not in Maryland.
Did they have any authority for this omission?

A. Well, I think the reason they did that was that I made a state-
ment in Cincinnati that I thought that probably my name would
not be placed in nomination. I think this is still a reasonably safe
assumption. I would expect that I will have made a determination of
what I'm going to do and release the Maryland delegation before the
balloting begins on Wednesday.

Q. How will you make that determination, Governor? What factors
will be involved in it?

A. A diversity of factors will be considered. Of course, mainly my
conversations with the delegates, the sum total of what I've learned
in my reading and talking over the past couple of months, some at-
tention to the polls — although they seem to be a little confused
these days about the result; the results don't seem to be too uniform
between the Harris poll and Gallup poll — and, well, a complete
conglomeration of information that I probably couldn't even define