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...results turned more on complex personality considerations than on substantive issues. On his way to winning re-election as mayor with 75% of the vote last year, Koch pledged at Jerusalem's Wailing Wall that he would not abandon his beloved boroughs to run for higher office. But when Governor Hugh Carey decided not to seek a third term, Koch, 57, set his sights on Albany. Some city voters seemed determined to keep Koch home: he ended up only splitting the city vote with Cuomo. (In the 1977 mayor's race, Koch topped Cuomo...
...worst thing American Jews can do is blindly accept all Israel's positions pro forma, as rabbis all around the country probably did last weekend. That can only harden Israeli intransigence. American Jews have to abandon their traditional practice of rallying to the government line just because it has few other friends. Israel is a strong, tough state, in no need of coddling. Only by being honest with their feelings and speaking out can American Jews do their most for the Jewish state. Even if that honesty and speaking out means a little bit of friendly criticism...
...opposite way; professionalism, if you like. Pay the college athletes straight out and abandon this pretense of amateurism. As a memo drafted by the American Council on Education--a Washington-based higher education group--observed. "A paramount advantage of this...option is that it confronts the hypocrisy of the present-system and puts big-time programs on an honest and straightforward basis." True enough, yet not only would such a professionalism never come around, but it also seems a bastardization of what we seek from our institutions of higher learning...
...wholehearted support of Senator Kennedy and other liberals was no laughing matter, since it threatened to alienate potential conservative backers. Majority Leader Howard Baker quietly sent a message to Democratic leaders asking them to restrain any public proclamations from colleagues. As it turned out, eleven Republicans decided to abandon ship, but enough Democrats voted for it to push the bill over...
...Midwest is not as bleak for Reagan as it might be. Moreover, farmers tend to be conservative politically and well inclined toward Reagan's politics. Even those who disagree with his policies tend to admire the President's personal style, and doubt that they will readily abandon him. "I don't blame Reaganomics or anything the President has done," says John Ed Tarkington, 36, who raises rice and soybeans on his 1,900-acre farm near Almyra. Ark. "We are at the mercy of the market." Indeed, many farmers still seem willing to give Reagan more time...