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ANTITRUST. Both Tsongas and Clinton are ardent free traders, but only Tsongas sees the antitrust laws as inhibiting the nation's ability to compete abroad. "Current antitrust laws," he says, "prevent American companies from joint venturing in almost any area, including such critical ones as research and development." On this, Tsongas is just dead wrong. Even the American Bar Association's antitrust contingent, which is heavy with attorneys who represent manufacturing clients, and which therefore supports the fewest obstacles to unfettered business enterprise, has concluded that the law is fine as it stands. "He's just plain misinformed," says Stephen...
...Record, the ardent Salem campaigner, calledHarkin the "most noble, patriotic" candidate...
Other separationists argue on religious grounds; they want to protect their own churches and their private beliefs from exploitation by politicians or demagogues. "Religious beliefs worthy of respect are the product of free and voluntary choice by the faithful," Justice John Paul Stevens, the Supreme Court's most ardent separationist, wrote in 1985. "Government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion...
...recruit a cadet classmate named Mitsuo Fuchida, who could train all of Yamamoto's pilots and lead them into battle. Fuchida, grandson of a famous samurai, was born in 1902, a Year of the Tiger ("Tora! Tora!"), so he was 39 when summoned to his mission. An ardent admirer of Hitler, he had grown a toothbrush mustache...
George Bush hasn't been seen rollerblading in Wayfarers and spandex biking shorts down the Pacific Coast Highway, but judging from the ardent way he has been wooing California for the past few months, it may be only a matter of time. After blowing off California during his first two years in the White House, Bush has lately turned to blowing it kisses. He has assured Californians how much he enjoys visiting them, telling a Los Angeles audience in September that his wife Barbara "likes, just plain likes coming out to California." And he vows to keep coming back...