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When asked specifically about Chappaquiddick, 76% say, as did 79% in a TIME poll a year ago, that "it is time to forget Chappaquiddick and judge Kennedy by what he has done since then." Similarly, 63% say that the accident should not be an issue in the campaign. Nonetheless, 44% say that they are still bothered by Kennedy's part in the incident. Among independents and Democrats who prefer Carter to Kennedy, that figure is higher (55%), suggesting that Chappaquiddick is costing Kennedy support...
...challenge to an incumbent President has not hurt Kennedy's image as a loyal party man; 85% classify him as such. He carries a reputation as an outstanding member of the U.S. Senate. But the feeling that his views are too liberal has begun to grow. A year ago, only 38% said he was too liberal, but that number has now jumped...
...investigate the disappearances, evidently out of concern that this might implicate the armed forces. Unless the junta can produce a convincing explanation of what happened to the missing 300, and quickly, warns Christian Democratic Leader José Napoleón Duarte, whose victory in the presidential election seven years ago precipitated a military takeover, "they will be digging their own graves." Not to mention those of many other Salvadorans...
...weeks ago, on his trip to Ireland, Pope John Paul II made an impassioned supplication: "On my knees I beg you to turn away from the paths of violence." The Pope's plea did not reach those who needed it most. Protestant paramilitary groups in the North had already vowed vengeance in the wake of August's Bloody Monday, when Lord Mountbatten and three of his party were killed and 18 British troops massacred...
...view of Kübler-Ross's canon as solid began to change several years ago, when the psychiatrist raised eyebrows by concluding that death is not so final, after all. "When people die," Kübler-Ross declared, "they very simply shed their body, much as a butterfly comes out of its cocoon." Her growing conviction that the living could communicate with the dead led her to dabble in spiritualism at her retreat north of San Diego. Now Kübler-Ross, who refers to herself as an "immortal visionary and modern cartographer of the River Styx...